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perhaps not Ballard's best . . ., 18. Juni 2000
...but certainly his most unforgettable. I've read this book several times, and it is still just as disturbing, if not more disturbing, each time I read it. There aren't many books you can say that about. Some of his other books may be better--"Day of Creation," "The Crystal World," and "Unlimited Dream Company" are all marvelous fantasies, written in that same fluid, dreamlike style. But they won't haunt your nightmares like "Crash" will. I think what affected me the most, more than the cold, clinical, but still erotic sex scenes or the terrible brutality of Vaughan's deliberately engineered crashes, was simply the unflinching look at the nature of obsession. Ballard (and it's so much more disturbing, somehow feeling that the author is, or may be, the narrator) shows how we can become fixated, whether on sex, death, violence, another person, whatever, to the point that nothing else in the world matters--and there is nothing particularly unusual about this! He is perfectly matter-of-fact, unalarmed about his growing obsession. This is simply the way people's minds work, he seems to be telling us. People aren't rational. They're controlled by their obsessions, some of which are more benign than others (Vaughan's would have to be among the least benign). What's most frightening about this is that we realize how true this insight is--I think that's Ballard's greatest achievement, something that he returns to again and again in other works. (I think especially of the two rival scientists carrying on their petty, personal war as the jungle around them turns to glass in "The Crystal World.") As much as I have been moved and impressed by this book, I haven't the least interest in seeing the Cronenberg movie--I don't see how a film could hope to do justice to the perfect beauty and horror of this little nightmare.
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Nothing for the weak, 20. September 2004
Von Ein Kunde
A great read, but like the cronenberg movie, nothing for the feeble. The dense and often hypnotic language describes a new form of sexuality born out of the accidental marriage of automobile technology and the human body. Yes. There is sexual obsession circling around car accident injuries. You will be very pleased.
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Zu lang für eine Metapher...., 27. Dezember 2002
Ich habe dieses Buch gelesen, weil mich die Kombination CRASHS-LUST als Leitmotiv sehr interessierte. Die Idee schien etwa bis MItte des Buches reizvoll, doch Ballard hält den Stil einfach nicht bis zum Ende durch. Was sich zum Anfang liest wie ein Bret Easton Ellis , entpuppt sich ab Mitte des BUches als öde Ansammlung von sexuellen Prozessen kombiniert mit jeder Menge Autounfällen. Der Schockeffekt fällt weg, da alles immer konstruierter wirkt.
Aus "Crash" hätte man eine phantastische Erzählung von 100 Seiten machen können. Ballard hat einfach nicht die Sprache, aus diesem doch spannenden Motiv einen ganzen Roman zu schreiben, dazu fehlt es an Entwicklung & Struktur im Roman.
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