![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. This edition is part of a new commemorative series of Ballard's works, featuring introductions from a number of his admirers (including Neil Gaiman, Iain Sinclair, James Lever and Ali Smith) and brand-new cover designs. In this revised edition, Ballard has added extensive annotation that help to unlock many of the mysteries of one of the most prophetic, enigmatic and original works of the late twentieth century. Finally, through the black, perverse magic of violence he transcends his psychic turmoil to find the key to a bizarre new sexuality. Ballards 1970 novel The Atrocity Exhibition is like discovering where film truly stands, or could, 40 years beyond Antonioni and Godard, 30 past Roeg, 20 after Greenaway. Seeking his sanity, he casts himself in a number of roles: H-bomber pilot, presidential assassin, crash victim, psychopath. To watch this curiously exhilarating sequence in Jonathan Weiss uncompromised adaptation of J.G. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe, dead astronauts and car-crash victims as he traverses the screaming wastes of nervous breakdown. The central character's dreams are haunted by images of John F. The irrational, all-pervading violence of the modern world is the subject of this extraordinary tour de force. ![]() ![]() This edition includes explanatory notes from the author. Ballard, the acclaimed author of Crashand Super-Cannes. A prophetic and experimental masterpiece by J. ![]()
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