The Atrocity Exhibition
by:
J.G. Ballard (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780940642195 (0940642190)
Publish date: June 1st 1990
Publisher: Re/Search Publications
Pages no: 127
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Classics,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
20th Century,
Art,
Short Stories,
Dystopia
This book proves once again (as if I needed any further proof this far into our tiresomely exhibitionist century) that other people's sexual fetishes* make for extraordinarily dull reading, even when they are gussied up with exquisitely beautiful prose and oodles of (once upon a time) celebrity name...
Impossible to rate or even classify this weird and disturbing book from the late '60s (it's not a novel, it's not a collection of mini-novels, it's not even a psychological treatise, though it has aspects of all three). It explores the links between death/danger and sexuality (his own wife had died ...
Drugs were quite popular in the early 70s.
Only a few pages in. Flashes of brilliance. He was a smart guy, this Ballard.This is proving a challenging and thought-provoking read.A couple of sentences I love:- "They hung on the enamelled walls like the codes of insoluble dreams, the keys to a nightmare in which she had begun to play a more wil...
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