B.S. Johnson's Scaffolding: Form, the City, Cancer, Weeds

• Published in: Modernist cultures Vol. 16; no. 3; p. 295
• Main Author: Cassels, Imogen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 01.08.2021
• Subjects: Cancer; Fiction; Materiality; Metaphor; Narratives; Postwar history; Robertson, Lisa (1961- ); Simplification; Truth; Writing

B.S. Johnson's fiction makes high demands both of its readers and itself. In his statement that ‘telling stories is telling lies’, and desire to ‘tell the truth’, Johnson involves his process in his writing, dismantling the novel form as he also continues to employ it. This committed slipperine...