I'll link my August 2010 review below, but what struck me (although I didn't note it directly in my review) is how much of a debt The Drowning World owes to Conrad's Heart of Darkness. There's a reason why the black characters are portrayed in such terms and it has nothing to do with Ballard's views on them; it's all related to what is happening around them.
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie
Je suis méchant.
Je suis méchant.
The Drowned World by JG Ballard
- 21/03/2011 12:37:16 AM
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I had a very different reaction to Ballard's book
- 21/03/2011 12:52:49 AM
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