Tuesday, October 3, 2017

J.G. Ballard, Prophet Of Climate Change?

"Consider the images coming out of South Florida" - let alone Puerto Rico - "the past few weeks: sailboats capsized and clotting on the shore; high-rises looking on, humiliated by their reflection in the flooded streets; palm carnage. These could easily be used to illustrate J.G. Ballard's 1962 novel, The Drowned World." Hunter Braithwaite makes the case.



Article source here:Arts Journal

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