The Atrocity Exhibition
J G Ballard author Hari Kunzru editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
Published:21st May '01
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A Prophetic Experimental Novel of Modern Violence and Psychosis
A prophetic and experimental masterpiece by J. G. Ballard, the acclaimed author of ‘Crash’ and ‘Super-Cannes’, featuring an introduction by Hari Kunzru.
A prophetic and experimental masterpiece by J. G. Ballard, the acclaimed author of ‘Crash’ and ‘Super-Cannes’, featuring an introduction by Hari Kunzru.
The human organism is an atrocity exhibition at which he is an unwilling spectator …
As the protagonist spirals into the depths of a nervous breakdown, his dreams are haunted by images of John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe, astronauts and car-crash victims. A kaleidoscopic scrapbook of mass culture, his mind fixates on the consumerism of the modern world – a hallucinatory obsession with celebrity, media, sex and violence. With the media infiltrating every corner of our psyche, have the lines blurred between fiction and reality?
‘Brilliant and unnerving … Ballard is a writer with talent to burn’ The Times
‘These stories – “condensed novels”, Ballard has called them – are a high-water mark in English experimental fiction’ New York Times
‘A powerful book … Phrase and image are constantly disturbing and stimulating’ Sunday Telegraph
‘The terrifying thing about Ballard is his logic; is this science fiction or history written ahead of its time?’ Len Deighton
ISBN: 9780007116867
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 16mm
Weight: 150g
208 pages
Annotated edition