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Il dottor Edward Sanders si reca in Africa alla ricerca di due suoi amici scomparsi, Suzanne e Max Clair. Arriva a Port Matarre, in Camerun, dove si sta verificando uno strano fenomeno: dall'oscurità della foresta e del fiume si sprigiona infatti una luce che fa risplendere lo spazio circostante. A produrla sono agglomerati di cristallo che crescono sui corpi vegetali e animali, trasformandoli in autentiche opere d'arte, che vengono poi vendute di nascosto sulle bancarelle. Sanders si avventura nel cuore della giungla, dove già sono all'opera militari e ricercatori scientifici, per cercare di venire a capo di questa misteriosa mutazione. Ogni tipo di materia, vivente e non, si cristallizza, tutto si trasforma in cosa inanimata, anche il tempo si paralizza. Il fenomeno potrebbe riguardare presto l'intero pianeta. A questa catastrofe esteriore, che comporta anche una metamorfosi interiore e psichica, c'è chi reagisce lottando e c'è chi invece si rassegna a sacrificare la propria vita fisica e mortale a questa minerale forma di immortalità. La fine di un mondo in fondo può essere l'inizio di un altro che sorge dalle macerie del primo.
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- Data di uscita: 24-05-2018
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”What most attracted his attention, however, like that of the rest of the watching group, was the man’s right arm. From the elbow to the fingertips it was enclosed by--or more precisely had effloresced into--a mass of translucent crystals, through which the prismatic outlines of the hand and fingers Leggi tutto
This book totally crashes the already-ridiculous-for-me GR 5-star-rating system because honestly this is an awful, awful book, ridiculously awful, and I loved it completely. This writing. Wow. there are weird unlikely dependent clauses all over the place, and there are so many bizarre—actually what Leggi tutto
The glittering forest of The Crystal World is more beautiful than the swamps of The Drowned World or the deserts of The Drought . Nevertheless it is my least favorite of Ballard’s apocalyptic worlds. The Drowned World draws me in with its heat and torpor and somnolent atmosphere. The Drought draws me Leggi tutto
a physician in africa; a world of disease. decay takes strange shape! a move into the unknown; the inexplicable finds its form and renovates, reconfigures: a new, dead life! figures in a landscape become one with that landscape... stylized characters form a comic tableau, fighting and fucking and dy Leggi tutto
Ballard novel: subject, end time. Crystal, metaphor. Verbs? Inappropriateness. Nouns, exclusivity. Technique: problems. Action-omission. Review: inanity, boredom. Book: impossibility. Author-choices, comprehension. Ballard: uniqueness, praise. OULIPO? Disagreement. LSD? Certainty.
What do I think of this novel? I already got a glimpse of it amidst several of the first half of the complete short stories of Ballard, so I knew what to expect before sinking my teeth in it. Time flowers leads to these crystals. The Illuminated Man himself was drawn into the theme of the Crystal Wo Leggi tutto
Welcome to another J.G Ballard Weird Environmental Apocalypse!™ See! The listless male protagonist, mired in ennui and sleepwalking towards his fate! Watch! As environmental forces beyond his control reinforce his powerlessness! Feel! Depressed at the inescapable sense of doom that hangs over beauti Leggi tutto
Later in his career, J.G. Ballard advised that a writer shouldn't write too many books. I took this to mean that a person can expend their reserve of creativity and end up becoming a pale imitation of themselves. I also gathered that this advice came from Ballard's personal experience. I haven't read Leggi tutto
The Crystal World: Time and death are defeated as crystallization takes over Originally posted at Fantasy Literature The Crystal World (1966) is J.G. Ballard’s third apocalyptic work in which he destroys civilization, the other two being The Burning World (1964) and The Drowned World (1962). It seems Leggi tutto
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