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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.
- B. S. Johnson
- 1973
Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry: Directed by Paul Tickell. With Nick Moran, Neil Stuke, Kate Ashfield, Mattia Sbragia. A man uses the principles of double-entry bookkeeping to settle his accounts with society.
- (463)
- Drama, Thriller
- Paul Tickell
- 2002-08-16
Jun 7, 2020 · Despite being an absurd and horrifying black comedy, Johnson is no less precise in his writing in Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry than in the excruciating evocation of loss in his book-in-a-box. Indeed, much of the humour of the novel is dependent on Johnson’s ability to seamlessly intersperse the text with clauses, sentences and sections that break down the text’s artifice.
Christie Malry is twenty-something male who lives in West London with his terminally ill mother and works in an office, a job he finds unfulfilling and so distracts himself from the boredom by having violent fantasies in which he threatens his manager with a shotgun.
Confused? It's simpler than it sounds: Christie Malry, a lonely and unfulfilled man, learns double entry bookkeeping - debit and credit - and starts taking revenge on a society that refuses to recognise his value. Starring Nick Moran and Kate Ashfield, this film is at once dark, funny, erotic and very, very English.
An alienated man applies the principles of double-entry accounting to justify his descent into terrorism. Showing it's age and budget. Extra half star for Anarchist's Cookbook and somewhat...
- Drama, Mystery & Thriller
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Aug 6, 2002 · Malry uses the principles of double-entry bookkeeping to 'settle' these accounts against the world. One can guess why distributors have steered clear of Paul Tickell's dark satire for so...
