B.S. Johnson: 'Albert Angelo' - =Andy Wimbush. B.S. Johnson. I’m afraid I’ve told you a fib. I’ve led you here with the understanding that you’re going to read all about how B.S. Johnson’s Albert Angelo is a London fiction. As it turns out, that’s not really the case. You’ve been had. Albert Angelo is a surprising text, and a remarkable one. It tells the story of twenty-eight year old Albert Angelo, who wishes to be an architect -- who is one, but can't earn a living at it -- and who works, in the meantime, as a supply (or substitute) teacher. The novel is Author: www.doorway.run. 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/5(19).
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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. "Albert Angelo" was his second novel and deconstructs the very form. Published in , Johnson uses the (many) tools in his arsenal to tell a simple story in a multi-dimensional way. For Johnson all fiction is a version of a lie, but rather than leave it at that, he both gives us a conventional narrative (albeit seen from a number of different angles) and then exposes the lie. A remarkable and clever fiction, Albert Angelo works wonderfully on many levels. Johnson stretches the bounds of fiction, but he does so carefully, almost gently. Unlike most modernist (and pomo) authors he reaches out to his audience, instead of pushing it away. Despite all Johnson's shenanigans, Albert Angelo is a very straightforward novel. Certainly recommended.
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