The life of B.S. Johnson who, fifty years after his death, refuses to disappear or be assimilated; 'A friend of Johnson's once described him as being 'racked with self-certainties' - he was one of those unnerving people whose massive ego is sheathed in the thinnest of skins - and you feel this, always, in his work, which has real verve and commitment but also, I think, a hint of the defensive.'
