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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
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.
Jun 7, 2020 · ‘Christie,’ I warned him, ‘it doesn’t seem to me possible to take this novel much further. I’m sorry.’ ‘Don’t be sorry,’ said Christie in a kindly manner, ‘don’t be sorry. […] The writing of a long novel is in itself an anachronistic form: it was relevant only to a society and a set of social conditions which no longer ...
Christie Malry's Own Double Entry is an underappreciated slice of metafictional revelry. Based on the novel by BS Johnson - a writer who committed suicide after saying "I shall be much more famous when I'm dead" - the narrative alternates between London at the turn of the millennium and Renaissance Milan.
Christie lives with his mother but, as soon as she is not needed for novelistic purposes, she agrees to write herself out of the novel. He takes up with a sexually eager young woman – think vacuum cleaners and shaving foam – known only as the Shrike.
Carmen (Alexa Varga) and Juni (Daryl Sabara), our pint-sized heroes, now belong to an international junior spy organisation, and if they want to beat a rival brother-sister team they'll...
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Aug 6, 2002 · Moran plays Christie Malry, a twisted, psychotic accountant with an obsessive habit of taking revenge on the world for every slight he believes he has suffered - a scheme more in keeping with...
