When someone suffers from a depraved obsession they quickly learn to hide those tendencies from everyone around them, but when they meet someone with the same affliction it fuels the fire.

Le message qu'on tire est une des révélations prophétiques de Ballard: l' artificialité de nos existances nous prive tellement du contact physique avec la réalité, qu'on désire la collision pour ressentir quelque chose.As contusões nos meus joelhos e no meu peito eram receptores sintonizados em uma série de transmissores, captando os sinais, desconhecidos de mim mesmo, que desatariam aquela imensa estagnação e libertariam aqueles motoristas para o verdadeiro destino concebido par seus veículos, os paraísos da estrada elétrica. In Australia, a cut version rated R18+ was given a limited release; it was later released uncut on VHS in early 1997, and then on DVD in 2003. If one were to consider a single word to describe this immensely important work, I would choose the word 'brilliant' - not as per youf speak i. A few years ago a group of young men deliberately piloted aeroplanes into a number of buildings in the USA killing all in all 2,996 people. In this hallucinatory novel an automobile 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 demise in an internationally orchestrated car crash with Elizabeth TaylorA classic work of cuttingedge fiction Crash explores both the disturbing implications and horrific possibilities of contemporary societys increasing dependence on technology as intermediary in human relations.

Later, James and Catherine perform a similar stunt, with James pursuing her on a freeway at a high speed. Oh, it does some of what Ballard promised, and it remains an interesting idea, but the writing is not equal to the concept and lets the book (and the reader) down. The story is interpreted as showing a merger between technology, sexuality, and death, and he further argued that by pointing out Vaughan's character takes and keeps photos of the car crashes and the mutilated bodies involved. This edition is part of a new commemorative series of Ballard’s works, featuring introductions from a number of his admirers (including Robert Macfarlane, Martin Amis, James Lever and Ali Smith) and brand-new cover designs from the artist Stanley Donwood.Em cinquenta anos, à medida que mais e mais carros colidissem ali, os estilhaços de vidro formariam uma barreira considerável, em trinta anos, uma praia de cristal afiado. J.G Ballard spent a portion of his childhood in a Japanese prisoner of war camp (chronicled in the novel and film, Empire of the Sun) and later trained as a doctor. I understand about the sexualizing of the auto in our culture and our pseudo-sexual relations to it, etc. Cronenberg was only able to read half of the book as he found it disturbing and said he could not make it into a film. Of preparing the most lurid fantasies, drawing much more than solace from other victims, of fetishizing and tempting the ONE FINAL RELEASE.