J. G. Ballard
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A wonderfully bizarre piece of Self exploration...to rear its full head, it sees the author dejectedly failing to navigate the insanity of Dubai while musing on the life and works of JG Ballard. Self acts as a wonderfully urbane guide to a cityscape that might constitute a dystopia,... In this article: Will Self, Ralph Steadman, JG Ballard, and Dubai |
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NPR | 1 day ago
Alan Cheuse's Book Picks To Warm A Winter's Night
...it - hard. (Read Lee-Young Li's poem "Immigrant Picnic".) The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard, by J.G. Ballard, hardcover, 1,216 pages, W.W. Norton & Co., list price: $35 Squeezing together a...
In this article: Norman Rockwell, J.G. Ballard, Library of America, Vladimir Nabokov, Treasure Island, Michael Chabon, Little, Brown and Company, and Peter Straub
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NPR | 1 day ago
Excerpt: 'The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard'
...for which it had waited for so many centuries. Reprinted from The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard by J.G. Ballard Copyright © 2009 by the Estate of J.G. Ballard. Used with permission of the publisher, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. NPR...
In this article: J.G. Ballard, Pisa, Tower of Pisa, University of Florence, Tuscany, San Gimignano, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., and Palazzo Vecchio
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Jalopnik | 5 days ago
Ten Awesome Feats Of Automotive Infrastructure [Top Ten]
...for our four-wheeled needs to flow, mankind has crafted some pretty amazing stuff. Here's ten of our more mind-blowing efforts. In J.G. Ballard's 1974 novel Concrete Island, a wealthy man becomes stranded (his Jaguar breaks down, natch) in a...
In this article: Tokyo, Kobe, Volkswagen, Concrete Island, Flickr, J.G. Ballard, Pearl Harbor, Wolfsburg, and Osaka
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Telegraph.co.uk - Arts | 5 days ago
Joe Allston's Literary Diary
...Quartet in the Seventies, and created a literary agency in Japan in 1979, where he brought English language writers such as JG Ballard, John Updike and Helen Fielding to a Japanese audience. The one thing he could never sell in Japan was...
In this article: Japan, Plaintiff, Man Booker Prize, Helen Fielding, JG Ballard, and John Updike
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Independent.co.uk - Film & TV | November 16, 2009
The best films never made
Filming is now due to start again next spring with G�rard Depardieu, Michael Palin and Depp variously mooted for the cast. High Rise, J G Ballard's novel, was nearly made into a film directed by Nicolas Roeg in the 1970s but it fell through...
In this article: Michael Powell, The Tempest, David Lean, Stanley Kubrick, Nostromo, Birdsong, Johnny Depp, Terry Gilliam, and Johanna ter Steege
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Boston Globe -- Ideas | November 13, 2009
The endless rebuttal
...team: Early on when we were discussing themes and motifs to explore in "Synth Britannia" the topic of JG Ballard came up in conversation. … The world Ballard described in books like "Crash" and "Concrete Island" felt like a dystopian vision...
In this article: Mark Danner, George Packer, Twitter, JG Ballard, Crash, Britain, Gary Numan, and Sysomos
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Telegraph.co.uk - Arts | November 05, 2009
The Oxford Companion to English Literature ed by Dinah Birch: review
...a drug addict, a plagiarist, and a mystic humbug, whose wrecked career left nothing but a handful of magical early poems. " J G Ballard's Crash (1973) was an "outstanding, outrageous work, years ahead of its time, if there could ever be a...
In this article: Wikipedia, Margaret Drabble, James Kelman, London Review of Books, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Samuel Johnson, Karl Miller, and Robert Burton
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Telegraph.co.uk - Arts | November 05, 2009
The Freedoms of Suburbia: review
...was describing the suburbs as "a kind of scum, churning against the walls of the city… one of the greatest evils of the century". Even J G Ballard, who lived in Shepperton for most of his writing life, thought them "the death of the soul".
In this article: Jane Jacobs, Recession, Foot-and-mouth disease, E P Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class, and The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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Guardian Unlimited | November 03, 2009
Why does Hollywood recycle films?
...a great sci-fi film since The Matrix. And there hasn't been a memorable movie about the perils of using public transport since Speed. JG Ballard adaptations Weird-female-friendship movies Puppet action Team America: World Police was a...
In this article: Hollywood, Paris, Taken, Jennifer Aniston, Christina Ricci, Orca, Maid of Honour, Killer Whale, and Rachel Getting Married
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washingtonpost.com | September 16, 2009
Book World: Michael Dirda Reviews 'The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard'
...space." There are no ray guns and bug-eyed monsters in the nearly 1,200 pages of "The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard." Instead, Ballard's stories are, in his own words, "mental explorations, evocative journeys in the mind." Little...
In this article: J.G. Ballard, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Crash, Heart of Darkness, Martin Amis, Philip K. Dick, Empire of the Sun, and Earth
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Description from Wikipedia:
James Graham Ballard (15 November 1930 – 19 April 2009) was an English novelist and short story writer. He was a prominent member of the New Wave movement in science fiction, but his best-known books are the controversial Crash (1973), an exploration of automobile-accident sexual fetishism, and the autobiographical novel Empire of the Sun (1984). The latter was based on his boyhood in Shanghai, where he was born in the International Settlement, and on his internment by the Japanese Imperial Army during the Second World War. Both novels were adapted into films, by David Cronenberg and Steven Spielberg respectively.
The literary distinctiveness of his 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.”
Ballard was diagnosed with prostate cancer in June 2006, from which he died in London in April 2009.
- Name At Birth:
- James Graham Ballard
- Birth Date:
- November 15, 1930
- Birthplace:
- Shanghai, China
- Death Date:
- April 19, 2009
- Place of Death:
- London, England
- Occupation:
- novelist, short story writer
- Period:
- New Wave
- Influenced By:
- William S. Burroughs, Surrealism, Sigmund Freud, Jean Genet
- Influenced:
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- Will Self, Alex Garland
- Lee Killough, Bruce Sterling
- Ken MacLeod, Don DeLillo, Thomas M. Disch, Christopher Priest
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