Parámetros
- 222 páginas
- 8 horas de lectura
Más información sobre el libro
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.
Compra de libros
De torenflat, Annemarie van Ewijck, James Graham Ballard
- Idioma
- Publicado en
- 1977
- Encuadernación
- (Tapa blanda)
Métodos de pago
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- Título
- De torenflat
- Idioma
- Holandés
- Editorial
- Bruna
- Publicado en
- 1977
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- Páginas
- 222
- ISBN10
- 902299063X
- ISBN13
- 9789022990636
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- Entretenimiento, Temática cinematográfica, Adaptada al cine, Odio
- Primera publicación
- 1975
- Título original
- High-Rise
- Calificación
- 3,85 de 5
- Descripción
- 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.