Viac o knihe
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 vydania
- 1977
- Väzba
- (mäkká)
Platobné metódy
Nikto zatiaľ neohodnotil.
- Titul
- De torenflat
- Jazyk
- holandsky
- Vydavateľ
- Bruna
- Rok vydania
- 1977
- Väzba
- mäkká
- Počet strán
- 222
- ISBN10
- 902299063X
- ISBN13
- 9789022990636
- Série
- Štítky
- Beletria, Psychologická tematika, Sci-Fi, Thrillery, Súčasná literatúra, Klasika, Horor, 20. storočie, Britská literatúra, Dystópia, Novely, Londýn, Temný, Satira, Postapo, 70. roky 20. storočia
- Anotácia
- 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.