The Unfortunates

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. 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.

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Research Collection that references this work:

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Electronic Literature, Chapter 3: Hypertext Fiction
The Importance of the Term of Narratology in Electronic Literature

Critical writing that references this work:

Title	Author	Year
Analyzing Digital Fiction		2014
Cybertext Poetics: The Critical Landscape of New Media Literary Theory	Markku Eskelinen	2012
Digital Fiction and the Unnatural	Astrid Ensslin, Alice Bell	2021
Electronic Literature	Scott Rettberg	2018
From Theorizing to Analyzing Digital Fiction	Alice Bell, Astrid Ensslin, Hans Kristian Rustad	2014
Language as Gameplay: toward a vocabulary for describing works of electronic literature	Brian Kim Stefans	2012
Sound, Fury, and Consistency: Writing Recombinant Fiction	David Thomas Henry Wright	2019
Travels in Cybertextuality. The Challenge of Ergodic Literature and Ludology to Literary Theory	Markku Eskelinen	2009
Understanding Interactive Fictions as a Continuum: Reciprocity in Experimental Writing, Hypertext Fiction, and Video Games	Elizabeth Burgess	2015

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