Crash by J G Ballard (EPUB,MOBI) torrent

“Trying to exhaust himself, Vaughan devised an endless almanac
of terrifying wounds and insane collisions: The lungs of elderly
men punctured by door-handles;the chests of young women impaled on
steering-columns;the cheek of handsome youths torn on the chromium
latches of quarter-lights.To Vaughan, these wounds formed the key
to a new sexuality, born from a perverse technology. The images of
these wounds hung in the gallery of his mind, like exhibits in the
museum of a slaughterhouse.”


Crash
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In this hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a "TV scientist" turned "nightmare angel of the highways," experiments with erotic atrocities among auto crash victims, each more sinister than the last. James Ballard, his friend and fellow obsessive, tells the story of this twisted visionary as he careens rapidly toward his own demise in an intentionally orchestrated car crash with Elizabeth Taylor. A classic work of cutting edge fiction, Crash explores the disturbing potentialities of contemporary society's increasing dependence on technology as intermediary in human relations.
The story was later adapted into a film of the same name by David Cronenberg.

"A work of very powerful originality. Ballard is among our finest writers of fiction."—Anthony Burgess

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James Graham "J. G." Ballard (15 November 1930 – 19 April 2009) was an English novelist, short story writer, and essayist.

Ballard came to be associated with the New Wave of science fiction early in his career with apocalyptic (or post-apocalyptic) novels such as The Drowned World (1962), The Burning World (1964), and The Crystal World (1966). In the late 1960s and early 1970s Ballard focused on an eclectic variety of short stories (or "condensed novels") such as The Atrocity Exhibition (1970), which drew closer comparison with the work of postmodernist writers such as William S. Burroughs.

The literary distinctiveness of Ballard's work has given rise to the adjective "Ballardian", defined by the Collins English Dictionary as "resembling or suggestive of the conditions described in J. G. Ballard's novels and stories, especially dystopian modernity, bleak man-made landscapes and the psychological effects of technological, social or environmental developments." The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry describes Ballard's work as being occupied with "eros, thanatos, mass media and emergent technologies".
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Book Details::
ISBN:978-0312420338
Pages:102 in SumatraPdf
Publisher:Chaucer Press
Year:1971
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