Quotes - Softcover
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Cultural Writing. Reference. "One needs to continually make sense of a baffingly complex, constantly changing environment. Brief, succinct quotes can quickly produce clarity amid moral murkiness"--V.Vale. Deriving quotations from Hegel, Goethe, Gracian, Lichtenberg, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Lao-Tzu, Warhol and a multitude of other prophetic sources, J.G. BALLARD QUOTES exists as the perfect pocket-guide of enlightentment for those in need of a quick philisophical fix. Divided into easily accesible categories, this book aims to "expand and illuminate the reader's consciousness as rapidly as possible"--V.Vale.
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About the Author
James Graham Ballard (15 November 1930 - 19 April 2009) was an English novelist and short story writer who was a prominent part of the science fiction New Wave movement. His best-known novels are the controversial Crash, an exploration of sexual fetishism connected to automobile accidents, and the loosely autobiographical Empire of the Sun, about his childhood internment by the Japanese during World War II after the invasion and conquest of Shanghai, where Ballard was born in the International Settlement. Both books were adapted into films, by David Cronenberg and Steven Spielberg respectively. So distinctive was his work that the adjective "Ballardian" entered the language, 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.
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A compendium of quotations from J.G. Ballard's fiction, plus impossible-to-find articles and interviews. This is the first time Ballard's philosophic views have been edited into one volume, grouped by topic. A companion to J.G. Ballard: Interviews, this could be the 21st-century version of the Portable Shakespeare
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- PublisherRE/Search,U.S.
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 1889307122
- ISBN 13 9781889307121
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages416
- EditorVale V.
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