J. G. Ballard (1930–2009)
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J. G. Ballard was born to British parents in Shanghai, China on November 15, 1930. While a child during World War II, he spent four years in a Japanese POW camp. This experience was the basis for the emotionally moving novel Empire of the Sun, which he adapted into a successful movie, directed by toon meer Steven Spielberg. Before becoming a full-time writer, he studied medicine at Cambridge University and served as a pilot in the British Royal Air Force. Ballard is best known for his science fiction writings. His early works were heavily influenced by surrealism. Most of his novels deal with death and destruction of the human spirit. Novels such as Crash, Concrete Island, and High Rise portray a society that is devolving into barbaric chaos. Crash was made into a movie by David Cronenberg in 1996. The Drowned World describes an apocalyptic society, with a hero that ushers in the destruction of the world. His novel Empire of the Sun was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize and James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. Empire of the Sun was filmed by Steven Spielberg in 1987, starring a young Christian Bale as Jim (Ballard). Ballard moved away from science fiction, but he is still considered one of the leading authors of the genre. He died on April 19, 2009 at the age of 78. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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- Officiële naam
- Ballard, James Graham
- Geboortedatum
- 1930-11-15
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2009-04-19
- Graflocatie
- Kensal Green Cemetery, London, England, UK
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- UK (paspoort)
China (geboren) - Geboorteplaats
- Shanghai, China
- Plaats van overlijden
- London, England, UK
- Oorzaak van overlijden
- prostate cancer
- Woonplaatsen
- Sjanghai, China
- Opleiding
- Queen Mary College, University of London
King's College, University of Cambridge
Leys School, Cambridge - Beroepen
- schrijver
- Relaties
- Walsh, Claire (long-time companion)
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- Guardian Fiction Prize (1984)
James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1984)
Commonwealth Writers' Prize (2001)
Golden PEN Award (2008)
BSFA Award for Best Novel (1979) - Agent
- Margaret Hanbury
- Korte biografie
- Born and brought up in colonial Shanghai comfort, young James Graham Ballard saw his life change forever when, in the aftermath of Pearl Harbour, Japanese forces swept into the city. The three years he spent in an internment camp moulded his view of "a world turned up-side down" and have constantly influenced his fiction.
Back in Britain, he abandoned his medical studies at Cambridge to become a full-time writer, and his first novel, The Drowned World, was published in 1962. As with many of his works, the wanderings of his characters' minds are charted as minutely as the external world they inhabit. The Drought, The Wind from Nowhere and The Crystal World all strengthened his reputation for bleak but beautiful chronicles of a post-Hiroshima age.
After the death of his wife in 1964, Ballard retreated to Shepperton by the River Thames to raise his three children. But if his surroundings were sleepy and suburban, his imagination remained at the cutting edge. When he produced Crash in 1973, legend has it that one publisher marked in her notes, "writer beyond psychiatric help". Crash, dealing with the erotic possibilities of car accidents, was well ahead of its time. Ballard himself called it "the first pornographic book based on technology" and David Cronenberg's film version in 1996 provoked six months' deliberation for the British censor.
Steven Spielberg's lavish production of Empire of the Sun, Ballard's autobiographical account of his childhood, brought the author financial security and public clamour for his earlier works. At this point, Ballard could have easily put down his pen.
Instead, he has continued to chart the struggle of a restless society, one caught between a need for security and a craving for the reckless. His latest novel, Millennium People, once again describes characters drawn to violence through technologically-induced boredom.
He once called himself "an architect of dreams, sometimes nightmares" and his seeming obsession with disaster, depravity and dystopia is not to everyone's taste. But, in this pop-bang throwaway age, JG Ballard remains curious and alert, reminding us, too, that "imagination itself is an endangered species".
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Het verhaal valt me erg tegen, het is onlogisch wat betreft de erin voorkomende figuren, niet erg aanvaardbare typen, haast alleen archè-typen, mensen worden in de steek gelaten of op sleeptouw genomen zonder enige logica. De aarde is getroffen door droogte, tengevolge van enorme vervuiling ligt er een soort vlies op de oceanen, waardoor er geen wolken ontstaan en het niet regent. Mensen trekken massaal naar de kust, waarom en met welke hoop is onduidelijk.
De mensen en dieren sterven bij bosjes, en de overgeblevenen vechten om water, dat ze distilleren uit zeewater.
Na jaar trekt de hoofdpersoon met een paar oude bekenden terug naar het stadje waar ze vandaan komen. Daar is een reservoirtje water, hoe dat kan is onduidelijk.
Het eindigt ermee dat Ransom, de hoofdpersoon alleen verder trekt en zo uitgeput en gedesillusioneerd is dat hij niet in de gaten heeft dat het regent.
Het verhaal zelf verliest zich vaak in een soort technische beschrijvingen, er zit eigenlijk heel weinig verhaal in, de wanhoop wordt niet invoelbaar en eigenlijk is het saai.
Mpisschien is overleven ook erg saai, maar het verhaal had een stuk logischer en spannender gekund. jammer… (meer)