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JG Ballard Passes Away
British novelist JG BALLARD has succumbed to cancer and passed away today. JAMES GRAHAM BALLARD was the author of many novels and short stories including CRASH (later made into a movie directed by Canadian DAVID CRONENBERG) and the autobiographical EMPIRE OF THE SUN about his youth in a Japanese internment camp, also made into a movie directed by none other than STEVEN SPEILBERG. His writing had an enormous impact on popular music, many bands citing BALLARD in their lyrics. RADIOHEAD, leading up to their online release of IN RAINBOWS posted extracts of his anti consumerist novel KINGDOM COME on their website. In the dictionary, The adjective “Ballardian”, defined as “resembling or suggestive of the conditions described in J. G. Ballard’s novels and stories, especially dystopian modernity, bleak man-made landscapes and the psychological effects of technological, social or environmental developments”. JG BALLARD was 78.
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Posted: April 20th, 2009 | Category: Daily Fix
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