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22 de jun. de 2010 · Christie Malry's own double-entry by Johnson, B. S. (Bryan Stanley), 1933-1973. Publication date 1984 Topics Engelse fiksie, Fiction in English, 1945- - Texts Publisher Harmondsworth : Penguin Collection inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks; americana Contributor
1 de dic. de 2007 · B.S. Johnson's controversial novel of 1973, ‘Christie Malry's own double entry’, is studied in detail in the article which follows. The book outlines the frustrations of Christie Malry, a bank clerk and subsequently, accounts clerk, in facing up to the irritations and unfairnesses of everyday life at work and at home, including the organisation of business and political life and personal ...
1 de ene. de 2001 · A critically acclaimed film adaptation of the last of the novels published while he was alive, Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry (1973) was released in 2000. At the age of 40, increasingly depressed by his failure to succeed commercially, and beset by family problems, Johnson committed suicide. Johnson was largely unknown to the wider reading ...
29 de jun. de 2023 · Christie Malry is a simple man. As a young accounts clerk at a confectionery factory in London he learns the principles of Double-Entry Bookkeeping. Frustrated by the petty injustices that beset his life – particularly those caused by the behaviour of authority figures – he determines a unique way to settle his grievances: a system of moral double-entry bookkeeping.
14 de abr. de 2009 · Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry (1973) is funny AND original in a decidedly quirky fashion. Disaffected, young Christie Malry decides to apply the principles of double-entry bookkeeping to his own life, making down “debits” he feels he’s received from society and balancing them off with retaliatory acts for which he can claim a counterbalancing “credit.”
Christie is a simple man. His job in a bank puts him next to but not in possession of money. He encounters the principles of Double-Entry Bookkeeping and adapts them in his own dramatic fashion to settle his account with society. Under the column headed “Aggravation” for offenses received from society (the unpleasantness of the bank manager ...
Although those interested in experimental British novelist B.S. Johnson, who killed himself at the age of 40 in 1973, should probably begin reading this enigmatic writer with his second novel Albert Angelo, Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry is an imaginative black-comic tale of a bookkeeper's effort to take revenge on society for all perceived and real slights.
