This book analyses the original and stimulating work of Bryan Stanley Johnson (1933-1973). A novelist, poet, essayist, playwright, script-writer, director and literary critic, B.S. Johnson is one of the most radical artists of the British literary scene of the 1960s and 1970s. His formal experimentations and his exploitation of the materiality of the book (holes in pages, unbound book, text divided into two columns, typographic blanks...) serve a poetics of truth which discards the lies of imagination and encourages a new consideration of the frontiers between autobiography and the novel. Often situating himself at the centre of his work, the writer advocates a true, sincere and authentic discourse, and favours an emotional and ethical invo...