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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.
Nákup knihy
De torenflat, Annemarie van Ewijck, James Graham Ballard
- Jazyk
- Rok vydání
- 1977
- Vazba
- (měkká),
- Stav knihy
- Dobrá
- Cena
- 79 Kč
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- Titul
- De torenflat
- Jazyk
- nizozemsky
- Vydavatel
- Bruna
- Rok vydání
- 1977
- Vazba
- měkká
- Počet stran
- 222
- ISBN10
- 902299063X
- ISBN13
- 9789022990636
- Série
- Štítky
- Zábava, Filmová tématika, Zfilmováno, Nenávist
- První vydání
- 1975
- Původní název
- High-Rise
- Hodnocení
- 3,85 z 5
- Anotace
- 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.