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Carregando... War Fever (1990)de J. G. Ballard
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Ballard is incomparable. Back in the early 60's you could read in the British SF magazine "New Worlds" some boring story about rockets and aliens, or you could read Ballard's disturbing dystopian visions, such as the superb "The Voices of Time". Ballard has probably run out of things to say now, but this collection is worth reading for the brilliant final story in this collection, which is an index to an autobiography of a seminal figure in late 20th century life, a sort of T.E. Lawrence born 30 years later. He was an astronaut, was at Yalta with Stalin, gave Churchill brain surgery,... This person (unnamed) was imprisioned by the authorities on the Isle of Wight (where is not made clear), and this index to the autobiog. is the only surviving trace of a personage who appears to have been totally erased from history. Brilliant stuff, worthy of Borges himself. I've just had a horrible thought, was it Buckaroo Banzai's autobiog? (only joking!) J.G. Ballard a dystopian with one very, very dry sense of humor. The future isn't the bestiality of "1984" or the state mandated hedonism of Huxley's vision. Rather it comes from the constant tidal pressure of creeping suburbia puncuated with moments of surreal violence sputtered out of a TV set. Kind of like life. I recommend it highly
The soi-disant index, the last item in this volume of short stories, is veritable fiction itself, or a component thereof. It is preceded by a page-long 'Editor's note', claiming: 'The text printed below is the index to the unpublished and perhaps suppressed autobiography of Henry Rhodes Hamilton', and speculating, 'Is it a disguised roman a clef in which the fictional hero exposes the secret identities of his historical contemporaries?'. The five-page soi-disant index then includes mini-narratives. Pertence à série publicada
A war-ravaged Beirut is the setting for the title story of this visionary collection, a tale in which a young street fighter inadvertently discovers how to bring an to the bloodshed only to find that his solution is all too effective as far as some supposedly neutral observers are concerned. Other stories feature an assassination plot against an American astronaut, the leader of an authoritarian religious movement; a man who is destroyed by a car crash and resolves never to leave his apartment again; and the survivor of a toxic-waste ship wrecked on a deserted Caribbean island. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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