It crosses over from his more familiar territory of cold and sterile science fiction and delves into a world reminiscent of Burroughs. The Atrocity Exhibition is a challenging read that takes the reader on a journey into the abstract and hallucinatory realm of Ballard’s writing. I think I was trying to look for a kind of new logic that would explain all these events.” It wasn’t just the Kennedy assassination. To some extent The Atrocity Exhibition is an attempt to explain all the terrible violence that I saw around me in the early sixties.

Leaving me with these very young children, I felt that a crime had been committed by nature against this young woman – and her children – and I was searching desperately for an explanation. “I was terribly wounded by my wife’s death. In 2007, when he was already terminally ill, Hari Kunzru interviewed him. Ballard’s wife died suddenly of pneumonia, leaving him to bring up their three children alone. I also wrote a few sentences or parts of sentence of my own. Part of this review also went through an additional process, as I asked an AI to attempt to integrate & summarize some of these fragments into a coherent whole – but I don’t think it did very well on that front. London: Greenwood.This review is more or less a random collage of fragments that appealed to me: fragments of reviews found on Goodreads, of the book’s preface by William Burroughs, of Hari Kunzru’s introduction, of a 2019 text by Rob Doyle in The Irish Times, and quotes from Ballard & the book itself. Out of the Night and into the Dream: A Thematic Study of the Fiction of J. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy: Vol. The Angle Between Two Walls: The Fiction of J.G. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 15(4), 457-478. Between mass society and revolutionary praxis: The contradictions of Guy Debord’s Society of Spectacle. London: Continuum International Publishing. Ballard: Contemporary Critical Perspectives (pp.

Disquieting features: An introductory tour of The Atrocity Exhibition. Williams (Eds.), British Avant-Garde Fiction of the 1960s (pp. Ballard: Visuality and the novels of the near future. Comments on the Society of the Spectacle (M. The Imagination on Trial: British and American Writers Discuss their Working Methods. User’s Guide to the Millennium: Essays and Reviews.

The Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. Ballard