Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry by B.S. Johnson

All accounts are to be settled, and they are - in the most alarming way.

`Every Debit must have its Credit, the First Golden Rule' of the system. So, for every offence society commits against him, Christie exacts recompense.

Frustrated by the petty injustices that beset his life - particularly those caused by the behaviour of authority figures - he determines a unique way to settle his grievances: a system of moral double-entry bookkeeping. As a young accounts clerk at a confectionery factory in London he learns the principles of Double-Entry Bookkeeping. 'Johnson has undoubtedly written a masterpiece' Auberon Waugh Num Pages: 192 pages. It also analyses it in terms of Foucauldian discourse, in order to show how effective literary protest was attempted against the tide of accepted knowledges and the system of power-constrained publications and utterances about accounting and business then in circulation.Description for Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry Paperback. The hero, Malry, uses accounting to help him address the problems.The article places Johnson's darkly humorous and satirical work in the context of the 1960s and 1970s. The book outlines the frustrations of Christie Malry, a bank clerk and subsequently, accounts clerk, in facing up to the irritations and unfairnesses of everyday life at work and at home, including the organisation of business and political life and personal tragedies such as illness and death.

Johnson's controversial novel of 1973, ‘Christie Malry's own double entry’, is studied in detail in the article which follows. It also analyses it in terms of Foucauldian discourse, in order to show how effective literary protest was attempted against the tide of accepted knowledges and the system of power-constrained publications and utterances about accounting and business then in circulation.ĪB - B.S.

T2 - An interpretation as Foucauldian discourse T1 - 'Christie Malry's own double entry', by B.

Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry by B.S. Johnson