The barjo is Jack Isidore. This paranoid obsessed with the collections and never short of pseudo-scientific theories comes to live with his sister Fay and his brother Charley. The arrival of Nathan, a young student, will be the source of an inevitable love triangle. The views alternate and gradually it is legitimate to ask who is the barjo between Jack (the most obvious, of course), Fay (selfish and manipulative), Charley (frustrates and brutal) and Nathan (but still lucid about Fay seduced).
Contrary to the usual production Philip K. Dick, "Confessions of a Crap Artist" is not SF, unless we consider the very personal visions of the characters on reality as forms of science fiction ... Between madness and fantasy, and fun barjo mind at once. His fantasies are paradoxically out some truths about the couple and the world. The paths of his mind are risky but it is ultimately the only one to be honest with himself.