Crash
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In this hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a "TV scientist" turned "nightmare angel of the highways," experiments with erotic atrocities among auto crash victims, each more sinister than the last. James Ballard, his friend and fellow obsessive, tells the story of this twisted visionary as he careens rapidly toward his own...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 224 pages
- ISBN: 9780099334910 / 99334917
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I guessed that he was one of those ambitious young physicians who more and more fill the profession, opportunists with a fashionable hoodlum image, openly hostile to their patients. My brief stay at the hospital had already convinced me that the medical profession was an open door to anyone nursing a grudge against the human race. J.G. Ballard, Crash // The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being expended to maintain this immense motionless pause. J.G. Ballard, Crash // After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident. J.G. Ballard, Crash //
The word "semen" appears in this novel 61 times."Blood" appears 78 times."Vomit", 11 times."Mucus", 8 times."Excrement", thrice.and "Smegma", twice.That's really all you need to know about this novel. Oh, and it's about a bunch of people who get off during car crashes. In case you couldn't guess from all the semen. Less of a conventional narrative arc-based novel and more of an exercise in rhythm and repetition of key phrases and imagery, Crash is not pleasurable reading. Nor, I figure, is it intended to be. It is extremely challenging, primarily owing to the graphic sex and violence, but also due to the clinical language Ballard employs to disengage... What interests me most about Crash is that despite J.G. Ballards capabilities for beautiful and evocative storytelling (see "Cage of Sand"), I've never read a story that works so hard at being ugly. It almost seems like some sort of bizarre writing exercise that was published by mistake. Crash is a novel so heavily packed with morbidly...
