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Super-Cannes
Oberhalb von Cannes hat sich eine globale Wirtschaftselite angesiedelt, die von Sicherheitsdiensten geschützt und von einer Heerschar an Privatärzten und Psychiatern umhegt wird. Weil seine Frau Jane dort eine Stelle als Kinderärztin annimmt, verschlägt es auch den Journalisten Paul an diesen Ort, der ihm ein Paradies zu sein verspricht. Doch schnell wird klar, dass unter der blendend-gläsernen Oberfläche einiges faul ist. Warum etwa leiden die Geschäftsleute unter latentem Stress und permanenter Schlaflosigkeit? Warum tötete Janes Vorgänger, der beliebte David Greenwood unvermittelt Freunde und Kollegen, bevor er sich selbst erschoss? Paul entdeckt eine dunkle Unterwelt, in der der leitende Psychiater Wilder Penrose seinen Patienten äußerst ungewöhnliche Therapieangebote macht, denn »keine Droge der Welt ist so stark wie die kranke Psyche selbst«.
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Selected Nonfiction, 1962-2007
"China-born English writer Ballard (Empire of the Sun; Crash) wrote nonfiction in addition to his novels and short stories...This volume of nonfiction, edited by literary scholar and novelist Blacklock (The Emergence of the Fourth Dimension), spans decades and covers topics like consumerism, Salvador Dalí, science fiction, future technology, civilization, and everyday ironies. The book is arranged by type of document (essays, reviews, commentaries), and the materials in each chapter are thus arranged chronologically. Ballard provides fascinating cultural criticism; he notes in 1962 that the U.S. population will likely be bored by space exploration, as real-life astronauts are not fitted with the robots and machines customary in a Buck Rogers adventure. Ballard excels at intriguing juxtapositions of items and ideas, a surrealism in prose form. A general introduction brings biographical context to Ballard’s life and work, and each chapter provides a contextual framework for the pieces within...An eclectic collection of essays for scholars of 20th-century literature."—Library Journal“If everything for Ballard is fiction, what makes for inclusion in a selection of his nonfiction? Aware of his challenge, Blacklock hopes to ‘illuminate the full range of Ballard’s activities as a reviewer, essayist, journalist, commentator, memoirist, provocateur, compiler of lists, and talking head.’ He achieves this handsomely.”—The Times Literary Supplement“Ballard is exceptionally prescient, capturing a world that didn’t yet fully exist or wasn’t visible to most.”—ArtReview“As George Orwell died in January 1950 and J. G. Ballard began to publish professionally in 1956 we can describe the first as the greatest author of the twentieth century, and Ballard as the greatest author of the second part of the twentieth.”—The Orwell Society
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Love, Death + Robots The Official Anthology
Vol 2+3€ 13,95 -
Die Dürre
Auf der Erde breitet sich eine nie gekannte Dürre aus. Eine hauchdünne, widerständige Polymerschicht entstanden aus Industrieabfällen bedeckt die Ozeane und verhindert jedes Verdunsten des Meerwassers. Flüsse werden zu Rinnsalen, die Wälder stehen in Flammen und die unerträglich helle Sonne brennt auf die verdorrten Landschaften nieder. Während die meisten Menschen an die Küsten strömen, bleibt der Arzt Ransom mit wenigen anderen in der Stadt zurück. Das Klima verändert die zurückgebliebenen Bewohner und Gewalt und Verzweiflung breiten sich aus – während einige, in Einklang mit der apokalyptischen Wüstenlandschaft, ihre Erfüllung finden. Wie sein Roman »Die Flut« ist »Die Dürre« eine Blaupause der »Climate Fiction« und ragt mit seinen grellen, surrealen Bildern einer Klimakatastrophe weit in unsere Gegenwart hinein.
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Öteki Dünya
Her yerden görülen devasa kubbesiyle bir alisveris merkezi, tüketim ve siddetin hüküm sürdügü bir tasra kasabasi ve beklenmedik bir ölüm... Yasadigi kasabanin alisveris merkezinde öldürülen babasina yalnizca veda etmek icin Brooklandse giden issiz reklamci Richard Pearson; labirenti cagristiran alisveris merkezinin, durmaksizin hareket eden yürüyen merdivenlerin, yirmi dört saat calisan televizyonun ve ellerinde posetlerle tüm vakitlerini burada geciren insanlarin arkasinda ugursuz bir seyler gizlendigine inanmaya baslayarak kalmaya karar verir. Mahkeme sürecindeki tuhafliklarla birlikte babasi ve kasaba sakinleriyle ilgili akil almaz gerceklerle yüzlesmeye baslayan Richard, görmezden gelmek ve dönmek, kalmak ve cözmek arasinda bir secim yapmak zorunda...Son derece yozlasmis ama bir o kadar da tanidik bir modern dünya tasvirini en canli ve korkunc bicimlerde ortaya koyma yetenegiyle J. G. Ballard, Öteki Dünyada artik hayatlarinin her aninda alisveris yapiyorlarmis gibi görünen insanlarin hikayesini; halihazirda icinde bulundugumuz sisteme cok yakin bir distopyanin sinirsiz tüketiciligini, fütürist bir tahayyül ve hakli bir öfkeyle anlatiyor.
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Kadinlarin Sefkati
J. G. Ballard, Kadinlarin Sefkatinde, kültlesen kurgularinin sahsi travmalariyla nasil kol kola ilerledigini ve ölümü Amerikanlastirma, simdideki gelecege ulasma takintisinin girdabina nasil sürüklendigini anlatiyor.Yasamindan kesitleri soyutlastirip ustaca yeniden kurgulayan Ballard, yazar kimligi ile sahsi gecmisini sosyo-kültürel perspektif süzgecinden gecirerek okura tekrar sunuyor. Gecirdigi travmalarin kanattigi yaralari yolunun kesistigi kadinlarin iyilestirici gücüyle sararken her bir ani, bellegindeki catlaklari Carpisma, Gökdelen, Beton Ada, Vahset Sergisi gibi sarsici eserleri araciligiyla sagalttigi süreclere aciliyor.Savasin insan psikolojisinde yarattigi tahribatin bir dehanin elinde nasil bir cevher damarina dönüstügünü, icinde barinan siddeti kalemiyle bileyen Ballarddan okumak isteyenlere.
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Gökdelen
Her seyin kontrol altinda olmasinin degismez kural oldugu modern dünyada, kontrol mekanizmasi bozulursa birden, modern insandan geriye ne kalir Dis dünyadan izole, sakinlerinin tüm ihtiyaclarini disari cikmadan giderebilecekleri bir sisteme sahip, upuzun gökdelenlerden olusan dev bir site disaridan nasil görünür Gazete ve televizyonlardaki lüks site reklamlari gibi mi Güvenli Sicak Zengin Huzurlu Gökdelenin hikayesi tam da böyle bir dünyada basliyor. Gökdelen sakinlerinin kalplerine yayilan kücük nefret tohumlari, üst, orta ve alt kattakiler arasinda giderek vahsilesen akil almaz derecede siddetli bir savasa dönüsüyor. Kaosun merkezinde ise sitenin kalbi olan tüketim katedrali, dev bir alisveris merkezi yer aliyor. Sonrasi Ballardin agzindan anlatilan bir modernizm masali. Ve tüm modernizm masallari gibi, sonu iyi bitmiyor. Ballardin cizdigi distopik dünya korkutucu, siddet dolu ama gercek Erk, yetki ve sahip olma arayisiyla, bu arayisin getirdigi kirginlik ve kizginliklarla harmanlanmis bir tüketim kültürünün patlamasi
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Merhaba Amerika
Distopik edebiyatin kültlesmis ismi J.G. Ballarddan, süper güc Amerikanin mecburi yeniden kesfine dair gaipten bir anlati...Beklenen son gerceklesmis; Amerikan rüyasi enerji kaynaklarinin asiri tüketimiyle her anlamda yerle bir olmus, hem ucsuz bucaksiz topraklar hem de bir bütün olarak zihinler cöllesmistir. Ballard, tekrar ayaga kaldirilmasi gereken yeni Amerikanin bu yaratim sürecini ikoniklesmis anti-kahramanlar üzerinden kurgularken, yikimin müsebbipleri tarafindan yaratilan toplumsal ve yerlesik korkulara nüktedan dokunuslar yapmaktan geri durmuyor.Siddet egilimli, yabancilasmis ve hirs küpü karakterleriyle ise günümüz Amerikan yönetimine uzgörülü bir selam cakmayi da ihmal etmiyor.Kalemini iktidar odaklarina cevirmis bir kahinden, yeni bir gelecek vaadeden yikimi hicveden Merhaba Amerika, ilk kez Türkcede.
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Garden Stories
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was born in London. She became a central figure in The Bloomsbury Group, an informal collective of British writers, artists and thinkers. In 1912 Virginia married Leonard Woolf, a writer and social reformer. She wrote many works of literature which are now considered masterpieces, including Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and The Waves. Italo Calvino was born in Cuba in 1923 and grew up in Italy. He was an essayist and journalist and a member of the editorial staff of Einaudi in Turin. One of the most respected writers of the twentieth century, his best-known works of fiction include Invisible Cities, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, Marcovaldo and Mr Palomar. In 1973 he won the prestigious Premio Feltrinelli. He died in 1985. A collection of Calvino's posthumous personal writings, The Hermit in Paris, was published in 2003. J. G. Ballard was born in 1930 in Shanghai, China. After the attack on Pearl Harbour the family was interned in a civilian camp. They returned to England in 1946. In 1956 Ballard's first story was published in New Worlds. His first novel, The Drowned World, was published in 1962. Empire of the Sun, a novel based on his own experience in China, was published in 1984 and won the Guardian Fiction Prize, the James Tait Black Award and was filmed by Steven Spielberg. He is the author of many collections of short stories and novels, including Cocaine Nights and Super-Cannes.
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Beton Ada
Yüzyillardir insanligin her seyi ardinda birakmaya, serüvene kapilmaya ya da özgürlüge duydugu özlemin ütopik mekani olan kesfedilmemis bir ada, ayak basilmadik noktasinin kalmadigi varsayilan bu modern dünyada neye tekabül eder Varlikli bir mimar, arabasiyla her günkü mutat güzergahinda ilerlerken kaza yapar ve otoban kenarindaki terk edilmis bir araziye ucar. Mahsur kaldigi bu insan yapimi adadan kurtulma macerasi birdenbire cocukluguyla, mutsuz evliligiyle, sevgilisiyle ve bizzat kendisiyle bir hesaplasmaya dönüsür. J.G. Ballard, cagdas Robinson anlatisi Beton Adada, büyüsünü yitiren köhne yerküredeki issiz bir trafik adasinin, dissal bir mekandan icsel bir mekana dönüsürken, kisinin kendini tanimasi icin sagladigi bitimsiz olanaklar üzerine düsünmeye davet ediyor okuru.
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Die Flut
Durch den Verlust der Ionosphäre, des Schutzmantels der Erde gegen die Sonneneinstrahlung, sind die Temperaturen gestiegen, die Polkappen geschmolzen, der Meeresspiegel steigt unaufhörlich. Europa ist ein sumpfiger Dschungel, bevölkert von Leguanen, Alligatoren und Moskitos, in dem ein Klima herrscht wie in der Kreidezeit. Während die Reste der Erdbevölkerung sich in die Polarregionen zurückgezogen haben, lebt Dr. Kerans in einem Luxusapartment im 10. Stock des Hotel Ritz über einem weitgehend überfluteten London, um zusammen mit anderen Wissenschaftlern die verbliebenen Landmassen zu kartografieren. Die extremen Umweltbedingungen und die Sonnenstürme verändern nach und nach die Träume der Menschen. Nachdem die Expedition aufgrund steigender Hitze abgebrochen wird, beschließt Kerans zu bleiben. Bei den Zurückgebliebenen vollzieht sich eine gefährliche Regression, eine innere Reise zurück in eine archäopsychische Vergangenheit, ein imaginiertes Trias Eden. Die Flut ist ein postapokalyptischer Roman, der die Auswirkungen einer Klimakatastrophe auf die menschliche Psyche in halluzinatorischen Bildern beschreibt und heute als Klassiker der dystopischen Literatur wie als Vorläufer der »Climate Fiction« gilt.
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Jim's Terrible City - J.G. Ballard and Shanghai. Photos by James H. Bollen
€ 34,50