Ebook {Epub PDF} Albert Angelo by B.S. Johnson

 · Omnibus: Albert Angelo, House Mother Normal and Trawl, by BS Johnson (Picador, £) In a review of Jonathan Coe's biography of BS Johnson in the Times last month, Giles Coren began by writing.  · B.S. Johnson was an alumni of King’s College London. I wasn’t aware of this before I looked up something about his background after rereading Albert Angelo (Picador , originally published by Constable Robinson ). Until a decade ago he was largely forgotten, before the novelist Jonathan Coe () did a long and well-received biography of him. Reading Albert Angelo after having passed up the chance to do so around the time it came out, when friends were laughing aloud as they read it, was a confused experience: it would have been easier to enjoy when B.S. Johnson was alive, which is not at all to say that it's not very funny and unsettling now. The teaching experience calls to mind Stephen Dedalus' feelings of hopelessness in.

B.S. Johnson is known for his boundary pushing novels and "Albert Angelo" is one of them. Telling the story of an aspiring architect (or is he?) who substitute teaches for a living, "Albert Angelo" breaks the "fourth wall", presents internal monologues side by side with narrative action, switches narrative perspective, and even works in other non-traditional modes of storytelling. But if you already knew the name B.S. Johnson when you started reading this, you more than likely knew Albert Angelo as "the book with the holes in the pages," as I did, before I read it. I assumed the thing would be literary Swiss cheese, but no; there's only one hole in the book — well, two, to be precise, but they're cut in the. Albert Angelo. Represented by: Diana Tyler. Category: Fiction. Publisher: Picador. Publication date: Republished February BS Johnson. With an introduction by Toby Litt. In his heyday, during the s and early s, B. S. Johnson was one of the best-known novelists in Britain. A passionate advocate for the avant-garde, he became famous.

Before Albert Angelo starts to unravel, it is a marvellously readable yarn about a man in the early s who aspires to be an architect, but through lack of work must settle for making a living as a substitute teacher in a string of struggling inner city London schools. Albert Angelo by B. S. Johnson. Click here for the lowest price! Paperback, , Albert Angelo is the second novel written by the experimental novelist B. S. Johnson. Published in by Constable, the book achieved fame for having holes cut in several pages as a narrative technique. It is written in an unusual and pioneering style, frequently changing from first-person narrative to third-person commentary, and often descending into stream-of-consciousness interior monologue. Like many of Johnson's novels it is an auto-biographical work.