The Unfortunates

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Description (in English):

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.

(Wikipedia entry on The Unfortunates)

Research Collection that references this work:

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

Critical writing that references this work:

TitleAuthorYear
Cybertext Poetics: The Critical Landscape of New Media Literary TheoryMarkku Eskelinen2012
Travels in Cybertextuality. The Challenge of Ergodic Literature and Ludology to Literary TheoryMarkku Eskelinen2009
Language as Gameplay: toward a vocabulary for describing works of electronic literatureBrian Kim Stefans2012
Analyzing Digital Fiction2014
Electronic LiteratureScott Rettberg2018
Sound, Fury, and Consistency: Writing Recombinant FictionDavid Thomas Henry Wright2019
Understanding Interactive Fictions as a Continuum: Reciprocity in Experimental Writing, Hypertext Fiction, and Video GamesElizabeth Burgess2015
Digital Fiction and the UnnaturalAstrid Ensslin, Alice Bell2021
From Theorizing to Analyzing Digital Fiction Alice Bell, Astrid Ensslin, Hans Kristian Rustad2014
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The Unfortunates 1st edition (UK)
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