![]() ![]() Nathan, explains the on-going attempt by the main character to reach reality through an investigation of contemporary happenings (Nader auto crashes, assassinations, media images, etc.), immediate environments, and the psyche. Not for the horizontal reader who enjoys A's graceful progress to B. This one is a must.' WILL SELF, Time Out 'Brilliant and unnerving! a writer with talent to burn.' The Times 'These stories - "condensed novels", Ballard has called them - are a high-water mark in English experimental fiction.' New York TImesĪ non-linear novel - of brief truncated paragraphs with obscure headings, characters who change names, identities and times, and macro-micro landscapes. ![]() comprise the book, were published separately in various avant-garde magazines. One can hear Ballard's voice as he offers a surreal evening class on his own work, life and preoccupations. Ballards The Atrocity Exhibition can easily be classified. ![]() But Ballard's marginalia are a tour de force, a wholly original work in their own right. 'I would argue that The Atrocity Exhibition represents the zenith of the experimental novel in English. ![]()
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