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In High-Rise , Ballard once again attacks our uneasy truce with the artificial. Four futuristic high-rise apartment buildings have been built. Catering to the wealthy, these buildings are in fact enclosed worlds, featuring day-care, schooling, swimming pools and grocery stores. As the new tenants adjust to life aboard one of the high-rise complexes, violence escalates and members from adjacent floors break off into tribal factions that roam the corridors at night. It gets more frightening and visceral (if a bit predictable); High-Rise is the 21st century's Lord of the Flies , a sometimes profound statement on what we are doing with technology -- and what technology is doing to us. Additionally, it is a scathing commentary on leisure culture (a topic Ballard returns to in Cocaine Nights ). If you haven't yet read Ballard, High-Rise is a great starting point.
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De torenflat, Annemarie van Ewijck, James Graham Ballard
- Language
- Released
- 1977
- Binding
- (Paperback)
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- Title
- De torenflat
- Language
- Dutch
- Publisher
- Bruna
- Released
- 1977
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 222
- ISBN10
- 902299063X
- ISBN13
- 9789022990636
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Classics, Horror, Fun, Filmthema, Adapted for Film, Dystopia, Hatred
- First published
- 1975
- Original title
- High-Rise
- Rating
- 3.85 out of 5
- Description
- In High-Rise , Ballard once again attacks our uneasy truce with the artificial. Four futuristic high-rise apartment buildings have been built. Catering to the wealthy, these buildings are in fact enclosed worlds, featuring day-care, schooling, swimming pools and grocery stores. As the new tenants adjust to life aboard one of the high-rise complexes, violence escalates and members from adjacent floors break off into tribal factions that roam the corridors at night. It gets more frightening and visceral (if a bit predictable); High-Rise is the 21st century's Lord of the Flies , a sometimes profound statement on what we are doing with technology -- and what technology is doing to us. Additionally, it is a scathing commentary on leisure culture (a topic Ballard returns to in Cocaine Nights ). If you haven't yet read Ballard, High-Rise is a great starting point.