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?
| ISBN: | 9780007116867 |
| Publication date: | 9th May 2024 |
| Author: | J. G. Ballard |
| Publisher: | 4th Estate an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 184 pages |
| Series: | Flamingo Modern Classic |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Violence and abuse in society Violent crimes Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology Psychotherapy Abnormal psychology |