| 词条 | The Unfortunates |
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| name = The Unfortunates | author = B.S. Johnson | image = File:TheUnfortunates.jpg | caption = First UK edition | country = United Kingdom | language = English | publisher = Panther Books (UK) Secker & Warburg (US) | pub_date = 1969 | media_type = Paperback (27 unbound sections in laminated box) | pages = 244 pages | isbn = | oclc= 40588291 | preceded_by = | followed_by = }}The Unfortunates is an experimental "book in a box" published in 1969 by English author B. S. Johnson and reissued in 2008 by New Directions.[1] The 27 sections are unbound, with a first and last chapter specified. The 25 sections in-between, ranging from a single paragraph to 12 pages in length, are designed to be read in any order.[1] The number of possible combinations the sections can be read in numbers 15 septillion.[2] Christopher Fowler described it as "a fairly straightforward meditation on death and friendship, told through memories."[3] Jonathan Coe described it as "one of the lost masterpieces of the sixties".[4] Johnson said of the book "I did not think then, and do not think now, that this solved the problem completely… But I continue to believe that my solution was nearer; and even if it was only marginally nearer, then it was still a better solution to the problem of conveying the mind’s randomness than the imposed order of a bound book."[5][6] PlotA sportswriter is sent to a city (identifiable through landmarks as Nottingham) on an assignment, only to find himself confronted by ghosts from his past. As he attempts to report an association football match, memories of his friend, a tragic victim of cancer, haunt his mind. The city visited remains unnamed, however the novel contains an accurate description of Nottingham landmarks, its streetscape, and its environment in 1969, with additional recallings of 1959. The football ground in the novel is obviously Nottingham Forest's City Ground, from whence the fictional football club 'City' comes. References1. ^1 {{cite news|title=Piece This One Together|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/books/review/Taylor-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0|newspaper=The New York Times|date=22 August 2008|author=Charles Taylor}} 2. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/oct/14/why-bs-johnson-suits-digital-age|title=Why BS Johnson suits the digital age|last=Hooper|first=Mark|date=2014-10-14|work=The Guardian|access-date=2019-03-01|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}} 3. ^{{cite news|title=Forgotten authors No.40: BS Johnson|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/forgotten-authors-no40-bs-johnson-1803216.html|newspaper=The Independent|date=18 October 2009|author=Christopher Fowler}} 4. ^{{cite news|title=I wish I'd written:|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/1997/may/28/fiction.jonathancoe|newspaper=The Guardian|date=28 May 1997|author=Jonathan Coe}} 5. ^{{cite book|title=Aren't You Rather Young to be Writing Your Memoirs?|year=1973|publisher=Hutchinson|isbn=978-0091181413|url=http://www.bsjohnson.info/articles.aspx?itemid=98|chapter=Introduction}} 6. ^{{cite web|title=Death by Naturalism|url=http://www.jonathancoewriter.com/oddsAndEnds/deathNaturalism.html|publisher=Jonathan Coe|author=Jonathan Coe|date=17 October 2002}} External links
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