![]() ![]() The book is generally regarded as Ballard's most experimental and is likewise considered to be his least accessible.Ĭertainly the fragmented form and the dense writing make demands upon the patience and the attention of the reader, but the book rewards close reading, offering insights into contemporary reality which could be communicated fully and accurately only by means of such stylistic techniques and devices as the author employs. ![]() The narrative is discontinuous and non-linear the style combines the clinical and the lyrical. The separate sections of the book, numbered and titled, consist, in turn, of sequences of individually titled paragraphs, the whole constituting an inventory of signs, indices, and instances as evidence toward the identification of a mental, moral, metaphysical illness. The first of these books, The Atrocity Exhibition, 1 is neither a novel nor a collection of short stories, but a series of interrelated vignettes which possess common themes, images, and characters. ![]() ![]() The first book is largely concerned with the etiology and the symptoms of the disorder the following three books weigh the prospects of recovery and consider various means of treatment. The following four books to be discussed in this may be said to constitute a sort of diagnosis and prognosis of the malady afflicting modern consciousness. ![]()
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