In which Johnson has lots of fun with constraints and toilet humour... Apparently, the structure isn't new. It had been deployed at least four decades before in 'Tea with Mrs Goodman' by Philip Toynbee, according to Johnson's biographer, Jonathan Coe. Clearly, telling the same events from the persp...
In his third novel, the experimental novelist (a term he came to dislike), pursues relentlessly his mission to write truth rather than fiction. Largely a roman à clef, then, it differs in the starkness with which the author lays bare his own thought processes. There is no attempt at all to show hims...
Wow. I'm so glad that this book was on my syllabus this term. BS Johnson's The Unfortunates has the most interesting format of any novel that I have ever read. It's essentially a book in a box, and once you open the box up there are a bunch of separated sections, which can be shuffled in any order...
bookshelves: autumn-2010, play-dramatisation, published-1969 Recommended for: Radio 3 listeners Read on October 18, 2010 ** spoiler alert ** A non-mawkish heart-rending whimsy brilliantly dramatised.http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/...adapted by Graham WhiteCast: Bryan ..... Martin Freeman T...
I am joining my voice to the chorus of friends who love this book. I read it yesterday, when I was not in the best of moods. Johnson's writing helped to lift that haze. (Many thanks to Mark for recommending and lending the book to me. I have now ordered my own copy - you're correct that I want it fo...
4.5 stars rounded up.Here it was he talked about the RAF. So? [10 space gap] So must others, for ever, or talk about something like it, and it does not matter to them, now, it cannot have mattered at any time to me, so why this, if it is so meaningless, anything means something only if ...
What strange language it is to read, this book. How peculiar, to me, my self, too, the reading. The book. This book. That I’ve held, in my hands, this book, my hands have held. Great fun, to read, too, this book, for me, myself, this book, it is. Wonder the punctuation, abundant, too, from McCarthy ...
This novel’s humorous tone and the author’s suicide will put some readers in mind of John Kennedy Toole and his A Confederacy of Dunces. The protagonists of both novels share a general loathing of their circumstances and the people around them. CMOD-e is, however, much more fun and funnier. Johnson’...
A non-mawkish heart-rending whimsy brilliantly dramatised.http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00v7sjw/Drama_on_3_The_Unfortunates_by_BS_Johnson/adapted by Graham WhiteCast: Bryan ..... Martin Freeman Tony ..... Patrick Kennedy Wendy ..... Claire Rushbrook June ..... Jacqueline Defferary Tony's Fat...
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