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In High-Rise , 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); High-Rise is the 21st century's Lord of the Flies , 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 Cocaine Nights ). If you haven't yet read Ballard, High-Rise is a great starting point.
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De torenflat, Annemarie van Ewijck, J. G. Ballard
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1977
- Einband
- (Paperback)
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- Titel
- De torenflat
- Sprache
- Niederländisch
- Autor*innen
- Annemarie van Ewijck, J. G. Ballard
- Verlag
- Bruna
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1977
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 222
- ISBN10
- 902299063X
- ISBN13
- 9789022990636
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Psychologische Thematik, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Gegenwartsliteratur, Klassiker, Horror, 20. Jahrhundert, Britische Literatur, Dystopie, Novellen, London, Düster, Satire, Postapokalypse, 70er Jahre des 20. Jahrhunderts
- Beschreibung
- In High-Rise , 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); High-Rise is the 21st century's Lord of the Flies , 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 Cocaine Nights ). If you haven't yet read Ballard, High-Rise is a great starting point.