B. S. Johnson's suicide in 1973 seems in many ways the fulfillment of his life as a novelist: there are few writers for whom life and art are so inextricably bound. This is not to suggest that one should look to Johnson's novels for the facts of his...

Bryan Stanley William Johnson was born in London and spent most of his life there except for some periods during World War II when, together with other London children, he was evacuated to the country and, much later, in 1970, a period during which he...

Prologue Writing from 1959, at the age of twenty-six, until his suicide in 1973, B. S. Johnson completed seven experimentally and ideologically intriguing novels.1 They prefigure by over twenty years the recent phase of critically explicit and reflexive novels of British writers such...

Prologue Writing from 1959, at the age of twenty-six, until his suicide in 1973, B. S. Johnson completed seven experimentally and ideologically intriguing novels. (1) They prefigure by over twenty years the recent phase of critically explicit and reflexive novels of British writers...