atrocity project:ballard

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i dont get it, is there a narrative im not following, i am supposed to just sup the prose? tell me about it !

― anthony easton (anthony), Sunday, 22 December 2002 20:28 (twenty-three years ago)

You mean the atrocity exhibition? Its more of a colelction of short stories than a novel, so the narrative is pretty weak.

― fletrejet, Sunday, 22 December 2002 23:48 (twenty-three years ago)

its really really short though and they have no point ?

― anthony easton (anthony), Monday, 23 December 2002 02:06 (twenty-three years ago)

The stories describe the mental breakdown of the main character "Travis" (whose name goes through slight alterations through the book) and the way modern society reshapes his fragmented mind (blah blah blah). Actually its quite good, but if aren't enjoying Ballard's prose then it really isn't worth reading. Its his most "experimental" work; the rest of his work is pretty "normal" in comparison.

― fletrejet, Monday, 23 December 2002 12:57 (twenty-three years ago)

they gonna show jonathan weiss's 1998 atrocity exhibition next month here in rotterdam, the flyer reads: "a doctor of a mental institution breaks down when he watches all the atrocities of today"

― erik, Monday, 23 December 2002 14:28 (twenty-three years ago)

they say it's based on the "genius novel by ballard"...after reading posts above it's surely gonna be a difficult evening...o and the seats are terrible in that theater, so...

― erik, Monday, 23 December 2002 20:07 (twenty-three years ago)

nine years pass...

i inherited some books and comics from the late great martin skidmore, amongst them a rather lovely panther paperback edition of 'The Atrocity Exhibition'. Written in pen, on the first page (not in martin's hand) is the note 'Whatever possessed me?", which made me LOL.

― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 08:48 (fourteen years ago)

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