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In <i>High-Rise</i>, Ballard once again attacks our uneasy truce with the artificial. Four futuristic high-rise apartment buildings have been built. Catering to the wealthy, these buildings are in fact enclosed worlds, featuring day-care, schooling, swimming pools and grocery stores. As the new tenants adjust to life aboard one of the high-rise complexes, violence escalates and members from adjacent floors break off into tribal factions that roam the corridors at night. It gets more frightening and visceral (if a bit predictable); <i>High-Rise</i> is the 21st century's <i>Lord of the Flies</i>, a sometimes profound statement on what we are doing with technology -- and what technology is doing to us. Additionally, it is a scathing commentary on leisure culture (a topic Ballard returns to in <i>Cocaine Nights</i>). If you haven't yet read Ballard, <i>High-Rise</i> is a great starting point.
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De torenflat, Annemarie van Ewijck, James Graham Ballard
- Langue
- Année de publication
- 1977
- Reliure
- (souple)
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- Titre
- De torenflat
- Langue
- Néerlandais
- Éditeur
- Bruna
- Publié
- 1977
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 222
- ISBN10
- 902299063X
- ISBN13
- 9789022990636
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Fiction, Thèmes psychologiques, Science-fiction, Thriller, Littérature contemporaine, Classiques, Horreur, 20e siècle, Littérature britannique, Dystopie, Romans courts, Londres, Sombre, obscur, Satire, Post-apocalyptique, Années 70 du XXe siècle
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- In <i>High-Rise</i>, Ballard once again attacks our uneasy truce with the artificial. Four futuristic high-rise apartment buildings have been built. Catering to the wealthy, these buildings are in fact enclosed worlds, featuring day-care, schooling, swimming pools and grocery stores. As the new tenants adjust to life aboard one of the high-rise complexes, violence escalates and members from adjacent floors break off into tribal factions that roam the corridors at night. It gets more frightening and visceral (if a bit predictable); <i>High-Rise</i> is the 21st century's <i>Lord of the Flies</i>, a sometimes profound statement on what we are doing with technology -- and what technology is doing to us. Additionally, it is a scathing commentary on leisure culture (a topic Ballard returns to in <i>Cocaine Nights</i>). If you haven't yet read Ballard, <i>High-Rise</i> is a great starting point.