Concrete Island - Hardcover

Ballard, J. G.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0224009702 ISBN 13: 9780224009706

Verlag: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1974

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"Visionary of both style and substance . . . the literary equivalent of Salvador Dali or Max Ernst."--"The Washington Post Book World" "Ballard's novels are complex, obsessive, frequently poetic, and always disquieting chronicles of nature rebelling against humans, of the survival of barbarism in a world of mechanical efficiency, of ethropy, anomie, breakdown, ruin . . . The blasted landscapes that his characters inhabit are both external settings and states of mind."--Luc Sante" "

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On a day in April, just after three o'clock in the afternoon, Robert Maitland's car crashes over the concrete parapet of a high-speed highway onto the island below, where he is injured and, finally, trapped. What begins as an almost ludicrous predicament soon turns into horror as Maitland--a wickedly modern Robinson Crusoe--realizes that, despite evidence of other inhabitants, this doomed terrain has become a mirror of his own mind. Seeking the dark outer rim of the everyday, Ballard weaves private catastrophe into an intensely specular allegory.

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• Verlag: Jonathan Cape Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1974
• ISBN 10: 0224009702
• ISBN 13: 9780224009706
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176