Crash

Produktbeschreibung

The definitive cult, post-modern novel - a shocking blend of violence, transgression and eroticism - reissued with an introduction from Zadie Smith. 

Kritik

'An extraordinary writer ... Calm and curious, pointing out every new convergence, Ballard reminds us that dreams are often perverse' Zadie Smith

'Ballard is beleaguered by his obsessions ... remorselessly visual' Martin Amis

'One of the few genuine surrealists this country has produced, the possessor of a terrifying and exhilarating imagination' Guardian

'A work of very powerful originality. Ballard is amongst our finest writers of fiction' Anthony Burgess

'Ballard has issued a series of bulletins on the modern world of almost unerring prescience. Other writers describe; Ballard anticipates' Will Self 

Autoreninfo

J. G. Ballard (1930 - 2009) zählte in seiner britischen Heimat zu den angesehensten Schriftstellern und Kulturschaffenden. Vom Science-Fiction-Autor entwickelte er sich zum experimentellen Avantgardisten und zuletzt zu einem ebenso intelligenten wie scharfsinnigen Beobachter seiner Zeit, der sich nicht scheute, kontroverse Meinungen zu äußern. Ballard wurde mit einer Vielzahl von Preisen und Ehrungen ausgezeichnet den "Order of the British Empire", Großbritanniens höchste Auszeichnung, lehnte er dagegen ab.
J. G. Ballard was born in 1930 in Shanghai, where his father was a businessman. After internment in a civilian prison camp, he and his family returned to England in 1946. He published his first novel, The Drowned World, in 1961. His 1984 bestseller Empire of the Sun won the Guardian Fiction Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His memoir Miracles of Life was published in 2008. J. G. Ballard died in 2009.