The Atrocity Exhibition

A prophetic and experimental masterpiece by J. G. Ballard, the acclaimed author of ‘Crash’ and ‘Super-Cannes’, featuring an introduction by Hari Kunzru. A prophetic and experimental masterpiece by J. G. Ballard, the acclaimed author of ‘Crash’ and ‘Super-Cannes’, featuring an introduction by Hari Kunzru.The human organism is an atrocity exhibition at which he is an unwilling spectator …As the protagonist spirals into the depths of a nervous breakdown, his dreams are haunted by images of John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe, astronauts and car-crash victims. A kaleidoscopic scrapbook of mass culture, his mind fixates on the consumerism of the modern world – a hallucinatory obsession with celebrity, media, sex and violence. With the media infiltrating every corner of our psyche, have the lines blurred between fiction and reality?

• | Author: J. G. Ballard
• | Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• | Publication Date: May 21, 2001
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780007116867
• | ISBN-10: 0007116861