B. S. Johnson

The Unfortunates

Experimental novel in loose-leaf format presenting narratives in random order about a university lecturer

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B. S. Johnson
B. S. Johnson

Johnson was the most formally experimental British novelist of the 1960s and early 1970s, who took his cue from Beckett and created novels with holes, loose pages, and other structural innovations. The Unfortunates is his masterpiece.

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