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In his heyday, through the 1960s and early 1970s, B. S. Johnson was one of the best-known novelists in Britain. A separate advocate for the avant-garde, he became well-known for his forthright views on the continuing future of the novel and for his unique means of adding them into practice. Johnson said of the acerbically comic and exuberant Albert Angelo that it was where he 'really discovered what he should be doing'. Midway through this astonishing reserve is one of the most surprising lines in English fiction. But you should start at the beginning. The eponymous Albert is an architect by training but a resource teacher out of necessity. Feeling that he's declining at both, and haunted by the failed love affair, he commences to question what he wants to achieve. Using a range of original narrative techniques, Johnson makes an attempt to reproduce life (and its travails) as closely as it can be through fiction while at the same time revelling in the impossibility of such a task.
