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by John Baxter| 2011| 371 pages| 0.0390625| English

About The Inner Man: The Life of J. G. Ballard

To many people, J.G. Ballard will always be the schoolboy in Steven Spielberg’s movie and “Empire of the Sun, and ” struggling to survive as an internee of the Japanese during World War II. Others remember him as the author of Crash , a meditation on the eroticism of the automobile and the liebstod of the car crash. The book he styled and “the first pornographic novel about science and ” dramatized the reality behind his formula for the twenty-first century – and “Technology x sex = the future. and ” It too became a film, and a cause celebre for its frank depiction of a fetish which, as this book reveals, was no literary conceit but a lifelong preoccupation. Uniquely among his contemporaries, Ballard understood and exploited the language of advertizing and promotion. Because of him, the term and “inner space and ” and phrases like and “the only alien planet is Earth and ” passed into the language. So did the adjective and “Ballardian and ” – and “resembling or suggestive of the conditions described in Ballard’s novels and stories, esp. dystopian modernity, bleak man-made landscapes and the psychological effects of technological, social, or environmental developments. and ” In this first biography, John Baxter draws on an admiration of and acquaintance with Ballard that began when they were writers for the same 1960s science fiction magazines. With the help of the few people whom he admitted to his often hermit-like existence, it illuminates the troubled reality behind the urbane and amiable facade of a man who was proud to describe himself as and “psychopathic. and “

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Author:John Baxter
Publication Year:2011
ISBN:9780297863526
Pages:371
Language:English
File Size:0.0390625
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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