A collection of essays on the 1960s experimental writer B.S. Johnson, this book draws together new research on all aspects of his work, and, in tracing his connections to a wider circle of continental, British and American avant-garde writers, offers exciting new approaches to reading 1960s experimental fiction.

A collection of essays on the 1960s experimental writer B.S. Johnson, this book draws together new research on all aspects of his work, and, in tracing his connections to a wider circle of continental, British and American avant-garde writers, offers exciting new approaches to reading 1960s experimental fiction.

Notes on Contributors Introduction; Julia Jordan PART I: JOHNSON IN HIS TIME: INFLUENCES AND CONTEMPORARIES 1. Early Influences and Aesthetic Emergence: Travelling People (1961), Albert Angelo (1964), Trawl (1966) and The Unfortunates (1969); Philip Tew 2. Johnson and the nouveau roman: Trawl and other Butorian Projects; Adam Guy 3. 'Like Loose Leaves in the Wind': Identification and Character in The Unfortunates and Composition No. 1; Greg Buchanan 4. B. S. Johnson and the Aleatoric Novel; Sebastian Jenner 5. Cell of One: B. S. Johnson, Christie Malry and The Angry Brigade; Joseph Darlington 6. 'Educated and intelligent, if down-at-heel': John Wain's Hurry On Down and B. S. Johnson's Albert Angelo; Martin Ryle PART II: JOHNSON OUT OF TIME: THE PERSISTENCE OF MODERNISM 7. Antepostdated Johnson; Rod Mengham 8. Evacuating Samuel Beckett and B.S. Johnson; Julia Jordan 9. The Sadism of the Author or the Masochism of the Reader?; Glyn White 10. Sex, Lies and Autobiografiction: Travelling People and the Persistence of Modernism; Nick Hubble 11. 'Make of Them What You Will': The Short Prose Pieces of B. S. Johnson; Paul Vlitos 12. B. S. Johnson, Giles Gordon and a 'New Fiction': The Book, the Screen and the E-book; David Hucklesby Index