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Crash by J.G. Ballard delves into a dark and unsettling exploration of the human psyche’s collision with modern technology. The novel centers on a group of individuals who develop a perverse sexual fascination with car crashes. As they seek out increasingly extreme and violent accidents, their desires become intertwined with the chaos and destruction of automobile collisions. Ballard’s narrative is a chilling examination of how technology can distort and intensify human desires, creating a disturbing landscape where the boundaries between pleasure and pain, reality and fantasy, blur.

Crash by J.G. Ballard delves into a dark and unsettling exploration of the human psyche’s collision with modern technology. The novel centers on a group of individuals who develop a perverse sexual fascination with car crashes. As they seek out increasingly extreme and violent accidents, their desires become intertwined with the chaos and destruction of automobile collisions. Ballard’s narrative is a chilling examination of how technology can distort and intensify human desires, creating a disturbing landscape where the boundaries between pleasure and pain, reality and fantasy, blur.



Title: Crash!
Author: J.G. Ballard
First Published: 1973

Length: 274 pages
Genre: Transgressive Fiction, Science Fiction



ISBN: 978-0316335438 (for the 1994 edition)












Publisher: Jonathan Cape, Ltd, London (pictured)
Language: English

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