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Crash

by J. G. Ballard

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Crash

A car collision becomes the point of departure for a novel about the convergence of technology, bodily danger, and erotic fixation. Narrated by a character named J. G. Ballard, the book follows his growing fascination with crashes and his connection to Robert Vaughan, a former television scientist who gathers crash victims around a series of increasingly disturbing experiments. The expressway and the damaged automobile shape the novel’s world, while its central tensions concern alienation, transgression, and the human body’s entanglement with machines. First published in 1973, Crash also arrives in this edition with a new introduction by Zadie Smith.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Adults interested in literary fiction that confronts violence and erotic subject matter.
  • Readers curious about postmodern fiction and narratives centered on technology, cars, and transgression.

Themes

Technology and the bodyCar culture and collisionAlienationViolence and eroticismTransgression

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Book overview

The Definitive Cult, Postmodern Novel--a Shocking Blend of Violence, Transgression, and Eroticism

Reissued with a New Introduction from Zadie Smith

When J. G. Ballard, our narrator, smashes his car into another and watches a man die in front of him, he finds himself drawn with increasing intensity to the mangled impacts of car crashes. Robert Vaughan, a former TV scientist turned nightmare angel of the expressway, has gathered around him a collection of alienated crash victims and experiments with a series of autoerotic atrocities, each more sinister than the last. But Vaughan craves the ultimate crash--a head-on collision of blood, semen, engine coolant, and iconic celebrity.

First published in 1973, Crash remains one of the most shocking novels of the twentieth century and was made into an equally controversial film by David Cronenberg.

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