The Atrocity Exhibition

by Ballard, J. G. | Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published 21/05/2001 by HarperCollins Publishers (Fourth Estate Ltd) in the United Kingdom
Paperback | 208 pages
197 x 131 x 16mm | 150g

A prophetic and experimental masterpiece by J. G. Ballard, the acclaimed author of ‘Crash’ and ‘Super-Cannes’, featuring an introduction by Hari Kunzru.

The human organism is an atrocity exhibition at which he is an unwilling spectator …

As the protagonist spirals into the depths of a nervous breakdown, his dreams are haunted by images of John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe, astronauts and car-crash victims. A kaleidoscopic scrapbook of mass culture, his mind fixates on the consumerism of the modern world – a hallucinatory obsession with celebrity, media, sex and violence. With the media infiltrating every corner of our psyche, have the lines blurred between fiction and reality?