"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.īeautifully constructed, funny and poignant, Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry is regarded as B.S.
'Delightful to read, highly amusing, and clever' Daily Telegraph Johnson has undoubtedly written a masterpiece' Auberon Waugh 'The future of the novel depends on people like B.S. Now made into a film starring Nick Moran of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels fame.Īcerbic yet funny, this is a novel which, even as it provokes laughter, will alarm and disturb as well. For every offence Christy henceforth received at the hands of a society with which he was clearly out of step, a debit must be noted after which, society would have to be paid back appropriately, so that the paper credit would accrue to Christy's account. It was at the bank that Christie discocered the principles of double-entry bookkeeping, from which he evolved his Great Idea. So he took a job as a very junior bank clerk in a very stuffy bank. Born into a family without money, he realised early along in the game that the best way to come by money was to place himself next to it.
For many years he was the poetry editor of Transatlantic Review.Christie Malry is a simple person. Johnson also made numerous experimental films, published poetry, and wrote reviews, short stories and plays. The Unfortunates (1969) was published in a box with no binding (readers could assemble the book any way they liked, apart from the chapters marked 'First' and 'Last' which did indicate preferred terminal points) and House Mother Normal was written in purely chronological order such that the various characters' thoughts and experiences would cross each other and become intertwined, not just page by page, but sentence by sentence. Once he graduated from Kings College London, Johnson wrote a series of increasingly experimental and often acutely personal novels that would now be considered visual writing.Īfter his first few published novels, Johnson's work became progressively even more experimental. He also produced television programmes and made films. Bryan Stanley Johnson was born in 1933, and was an English experimental novelist, poet and literary critic.
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