Author: JG Ballard - Translator: Michel Pagel
E publisher: Gallimard (Folio SF) - Published: January 2011
ISBN: 9782070398416 - Price: 5.70 €
About the author
James Graham Ballard was born in Shanghai in November 1930, when British concession, where his father ran a large textile company. At Cambridge, Ballard discovered surrealism, science fiction and psychoanalysis. After hesitating between medicine and literature English, he enlisted in the Royal Air Force and began writing. Her first novel appeared in 1956 in the magazine New Worlds. Married and father, he settled in Shepperton, a suburb of London, and decided to devote himself to writing. He published several novels and is gradually gaining ground as a writer of science fiction important. In 1973 he published Crash!, A novel shock that will be adapted for film by David Cronenberg. It continues the "Trilogy of concrete" with the island of concrete and IGH It is gradually distancing itself from the science fiction published in 1984 and Empire of the Sun, inspired by his experience in Asia, which will be adapted into a film by Steven Spielberg. In 2003 appears Millennium People. JG Ballard died April 19, 2009.
Abstract
We are not very long after our era, but do not know when. Because of solar explosions, the climate of Earth has been radically changed, and it is gradually invaded by the jungle and the heat ... Biologist Robert Kerans is responsible for studying this change in London and will see the end of the world .....
Felt
Initially difficult to focus on this novel. We do not really know where we are, what happens, except that the main character, Kerans, seems to be part of a unit of exploration Science. Gradually, we understand that we are on the planet that is changing slowly.
Throughout the novel, or almost, we follow the story in the jungle-like landscapes of hell, where nature takes its course. How will humanity survive Is she right?
What I liked was finally imagine that the situation of the planet is contemplated here is somewhere "conceivable", as the author imagines that that ozone is degraded, and therefore As the Earth warms. We also have a few adventures with the arrival of the group "illegals" who are doing advance the story, while keeping the plot interested me most, namely at metamorphosis. I will not say more because you'd be spoilers, but this theory fascinated me ^ ^
The only regret is for the purpose, which is not really one for me and a little gross ^ ^
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