![]() ![]() Other than a criticism of how a novel should be structured, Christie Malry’s own double-entry serves as a great middle finger to organised businesses. In a meta-novel twist the book’s narrator is having a chat with Christie Malry and is then telling us readers his exploits. At first it starts on a prankster level (think of the tricks Amelie plays on the greengrocer) and then it escalates to cartoonish levels of destruction. Therefore if someone is unpleasant to him, he has to pay that person back equally so that the debit is fulfilled. ![]() Malry then starts to apply this system to life. There he discovers the Double-Entry booking system, where every transaction is recorded as a debit and a credit, the end sum has to balance itself. This doesn’t work out so he then is hired as an accountant at a firm which makes chocolates and baked goods. Plus it’s good a fine plot.Ĭhristie Malry wants to be near money so he decides to work in a bank. ![]() ![]() It is playful, anarchic, has some ghastly puns, rude moments and it challenges the boundaries of fiction. It was an enjoyable read but I did feel that the concept overshadowed both the story and inner message.Ĭhristie Malry’s Own Double-Entry was Johnson’s last novel and it is everything I like in fiction. Johnson was The Unfortunates, which consisted of a book divided into separate pamphlet-like chapters, which could be read in any order. ![]()
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