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Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry (1973) is the penultimate novel by the late British avant-garde novelist B. S. Johnson. It is the metafictional account of a disaffected young man, Christie Malry, who applies the principles of double-entry bookkeeping to his own life, "crediting" himself against society in an increasingly violent manner for ...
- B. S. Johnson
- 1973
Jun 7, 2020 · With double-entry on his mind, he begins to envisage a new system: ‘I could express it in Double-Entry terms, Debit receiver, Credit giver, the Second Golden Rule, Debit Christie Malry for offence received, Credit Office Block for the offence given.’ But how, he wonders, does he settle the account? He is entitled to payment, but in what form?
Sep 12, 2018 · B. S. Johnson’s Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry (1973) is the story of Christie Malry, who, while working for a bank, learns the practice of double-entry bookkeeping. Feeling oppressed by an inhu...
- Eric Meljac
- 2019
Christie Malry, being a "simple man", above all longs for sex and money. In order to understand how money works, he takes a job in a London bank. This leads him to enroll in a bookkeeping...
Jan 1, 2001 · It draws on his own experiences as a young man not long out of school, in Hammersmith, west London, during the 1950s. Christie, eighteen years old and working as a junior invoice clerk for a company making sweets and cakes, discovers something which will transform his life: double-entry bookkeeping.
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Christie Malry is unstoppable but is brought to book in the end with bitter irony. With Christie's discovery of Double Entry we are thrown back in time to 15th century Italy and the inventor of modern accounting, a Dominican priest Fra Luca Pacioli.
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Apr 22, 2022 · In his studies he learns of the ‘sublime symmetry’ of Double Entry bookkeeping, the accounting practice where credits are balanced with debits. Double Entry leads to Malry’s ‘Great Idea’ in which he forms a moral version.
