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B. S. Johnson and the Ghosts of Memory in The Unfortunates

B. S. Johnson’s The Unfortunates is not like any other novel with which one might be familiar. First of all, it is a book that is not bound in the conventional manner to which one is accustomed. In fact, the book is not bound at all. It is instead a series of twenty-seven separate pamphlet-style sections, some as short as a page and others many pages long, which are strapped together with “removable wrapper.” These pamphlets are contained within a box that serves as the “cover” of the book. There are also instructions for reading this novel, which are as follows: