description: In his heyday, during the 1960s and early 1970s, B. S. Johnson was one of the best-known novelists in Britain. A passionate advocate for the avant-garde, he became famous for his forthright views on the future of the novel and for his unique ways of putting them into practice. Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry , the last novel to be published in his lifetime, is his funniest.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 a system of moral double-entry bookkeeping. So, for every offence society commits against him, Christie exacts recompense. ‘ Every Debit must have its Credit, the First Golden Rule ’ of the system. All accounts are to be settled, and they are – in the most alarming way.
language: German
title: Christie Malrys doppelte Buchführung.
titlecomplete: Christie Malrys doppelte Buchführung.
genres: Fiction, Crime, British Literature, Mystery, Humor, Literature, Classics, Novels, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 1650
places: England
publisher: Fischer (Tb.), Frankfurt