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 mostra altro 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) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Jerry Bauer
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Opere di J. G. Ballard
The Dying Fall 6 copie
Re/Search Edizione Italiana 5 copie
The Assassination Of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered As A Downhill Motor Race [short story] 5 copie, 2 recensioni
Pasaporte a la eternidad 4 copie
Saggezza stellare: nel segno di Lovecraft racconti soprannaturali per il nuovo millennio (1997) 4 copie
A Corrida Selvagem 3 copie
Autòpsia del nou mil·lenni [Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona on es presenta entre el… (2008) 3 copie
Mitos Del Futuro Proximo 3 copie
Contos Ficção Científica 3 copie
The Autobiography of J.G.B. 2 copie
El huracán cósmico 2 copie
Journey Across A Crater 2 copie
Solens Rike 2 copie
J. G. Ballard. Cauchemar à quatre dimensions : Ethe Four-dimensional nightmaree. Traduit de l'anglais par… (1963) 1 copia
The Draining Lake 1 copia
Tutti i racconti (racconti) 1 copia
J・G・バラード短編全集1 (時の声) 1 copia
J・G・バラード短編全集3 (終着の浜辺) 1 copia
Terminal Beat 1 copia
BAL Super.Cannes 1 copia
PERANDORIA E DIELLIT 1 copia
Venise Des Écrivains 1 copia
Mobile [short story] 1 copia
La exposición de atrocidades 1 copia
Coitus 80 1 copia
The Drowned World [short story] 1 copia
My Invented Country 1 copia
Cataclismo Solar 1 copia
Billennium - J. G. Ballard 1 copia
Condominium 1 copia
Gente do mil©♭nio 1 copia
Potopljeni svet 1 copia
Imperiul soarelui 1 copia
Собрание сочинений 1 copia
Opere correlate
Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk and Postmodern Science Fiction (1991) — Collaboratore — 249 copie
The Road to Science Fiction #3: From Heinlein to Here (1979) — Collaboratore — 243 copie, 5 recensioni
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest (2013) — Collaboratore — 150 copie, 1 recensione
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 12th Series (1963) — Collaboratore — 121 copie, 2 recensioni
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 13th Series (1964) — Collaboratore — 102 copie, 1 recensione
The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy (2000) — Collaboratore — 93 copie, 2 recensioni
Bangs and Whimpers: Stories about the End of the World (1999) — Collaboratore — 85 copie, 2 recensioni
The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them (2015) — Collaboratore — 85 copie, 2 recensioni
The Best Fantasy Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (1985) — Collaboratore — 71 copie, 1 recensione
SF: The Year's Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy: Second Annual Volume (1958) — Collaboratore — 68 copie
Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts (2012) — Collaboratore — 68 copie, 4 recensioni
Beyond Tomorrow: Anthology of Modern Science Fiction (1976) — Collaboratore — 51 copie, 1 recensione
The Mammoth Book of Tales from the Road: Tales of Life on the Move (Mammoth Books) (2003) — Collaboratore — 51 copie
Twenty Houses of the Zodiac: Anthology of International Science Fiction (1979) — Collaboratore — 44 copie, 1 recensione
The Second Gates of Paradise: The Anthology of Erotic Short Fiction (1997) — Collaboratore — 38 copie
Light Years and Dark: Science Fiction and Fantasy of and for Our Time (1984) — Collaboratore — 36 copie
The Slaying of the Dragon: Modern Tales of the Playful Imagination (1984) — Collaboratore — 30 copie
Science fiction verhalen [1969] — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni; Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 14 copie, 1 recensione
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1967, Vol. 33, No. 4 (1967) — Collaboratore — 13 copie
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 68. Mythen der nahen Zukunft. (1984) — Collaboratore — 7 copie
The Profession of Science Fiction: SF Writers on Their Craft and Ideas (Insights) (1992) — Collaboratore — 6 copie
Fantastrenna — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Den ¤elektriske myre og andre science fiction-fortællinger (1984) — Autore, alcune edizioni — 2 copie, 1 recensione
Nuove avventure nell'ignoto — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Ki ょ う も 気 God prepared a short masterpiece SF election (Kadokawa library) (2010) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Zärtlich war die Zukunft: Liebesgeschichten aus der Welt von morgen (1989) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
カイエ 1978年 12月号 特集・SFから現代文学へ — Collaboratore — 1 copia
新潮 1990年 09月号 現代SFの冒険 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
季刊NW-SF 1973年 11月 第8号 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
季刊NW-SF 6号 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
季刊NW-SF 3号 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
季刊NW-SF 1号 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
S-Fマガジン 1966年05月号 (通巻81号) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
S-Fマガジン 1967年10月号 (通巻100号) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
季刊NW-SF 1976年 08月 第12号 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
S-Fマガジン 2009年 11月号 [雑誌] — Collaboratore — 1 copia
海 1972年05月号 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
S-Fマガジン 2000年 02月号 [雑誌] — Collaboratore — 1 copia
SFの評論大全集 (別冊奇想天外 4) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
S-Fマガジン 1968年 01月号(通巻103号) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
季刊NW-SF 1976年 01月 第11号 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Crash! (Documentary short, 1971) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
New Worlds Science Fiction 106, May 1961 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Science Fiction Eye #08, Winter 1991 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Antaeus No. 35, Autumn 1979 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
S-Fマガジン 1967年04月号 (通巻93号) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Ballard, James Graham
- Data di nascita
- 1930-11-15
- Data di morte
- 2009-04-19
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Kensal Green Cemetery, London, England, UK
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK (paspoort)
China (geboren) - Luogo di nascita
- Shanghai, China
- Luogo di morte
- London, England, UK
- Causa della morte
- prostate cancer
- Luogo di residenza
- Sjanghai, China
- Istruzione
- Queen Mary College, University of London
King's College, University of Cambridge
Leys School, Cambridge - Attività lavorative
- schrijver
- Relazioni
- Walsh, Claire (long-time companion)
- Organizzazioni
- Ambit
Chemistry and Industry
Royal Air Force - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Guardian Fiction Prize (1984)
James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1984)
Commonwealth Writers' Prize (2001)
Golden PEN Award (2008)
BSFA Award for Best Novel (1979) - Agente
- Margaret Hanbury
- Breve biografia
- 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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- Opere
- 258
- Opere correlate
- 191
- Utenti
- 33,929
- Popolarità
- #564
- Voto
- 3.6
- Recensioni
- 763
- ISBN
- 894
- Lingue
- 25
- Preferito da
- 195
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