ballard

Le premier film en Scope de Lucien Ballard

Jim G. Ballard, 1930-2009

J.G. Ballard Before the success of Empire of the Sun Ballard was known principally for darkly surreal novels such as The Crystal World (1966), which described a West African country undergoing an inexplicable process of petrifaction, and Crash (1973), in which he put forward the idea that modern society finds traffic accidents erotic. Despising the term science fiction, Ballard never used it, preferring to describe his work as "apocalyptic". Despite Ballard's avuncular appearance and booming voice, his air of bonhomie... [Lire la suite]