B.S. Johnson’s The Unfortunates: Revisiting the Elegy

B.S. Johnson’s ‘novel in a box’, The Unfortunates, is an original and moving elegy to the memory of his best friend who died of cancer at the age of 29, but the unbound format of the book and the unusual use of blanks have been dismissed by some critics as a mere manifestation of playfulness, a coll...

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Main Author: Vanessa Guignery
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2011-12-01
Series:Études Britanniques Contemporaines
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/2353