Vient de paraître en langue anglaise, Extreme Metaphors: Interviews with J.G. Ballard 1967-2008, une compilation de 44 interviews de l'auteur. 

 
A startling and at times unsettlingly prescient collection of J.G. Ballard’s greatest interviews. 
J.G. Ballard was a literary giant. His novels were unique and surprising. To the journalists and admirers who sought him out, Ballard was the ‘seer of Shepperton’; his home the vantage from which he observed the rising suburban tide, part of a changing society captured and second-guessed so plausibly in his fiction. 
Such acuity was not exclusive to his novels and, as this book reminds us, Ballard’s restive intelligence sharpened itself in dialogue. He entertained many with insights into the world as he saw it, and speculated, often correctly, about its future. Some of these observations earned Ballard an oracular reputation, and continue to yield an uncannily accurate commentary today. 
Now, for the first time, ‘Extreme Metaphors’ collects the finest interviews of his career. Conversations with cultural figureheads such as Will Self, Jon Savage, Iain Sinclair and John Gray, and collaborators like David Cronenberg, are a reminder of his wit and humanity, testament to Ballard’s profound worldliness as much as his otherworldly imagination. This collection is an indispensable tribute to one of recent history’s most incisive and original thinkers. 


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Simon Sellars. Introduction: A Launchpad for Other Explorations 
1967: George MacBeth. The New Science Fiction 
1968: Uncredited. Munich Round Up – Interview with J.G. Ballard 
1968: Jannick Storm. An Interview with J.G. Ballard 
1970: Lynn Barber. Sci-fi Seer 
1971: Frank Whitford. Speculative Illustrations: Eduardo Paolozzi in Conversation with J.G. Ballard 
1973: Peter Linnett. J.G. Ballard 
1974: Carol Orr. How to Face Doomsday without Really Trying 
1974: Robert Louit. Crash & Learn 
1975: Philippe R. Hupp. Interview with J.G. Ballard 
1975: James Goddard and David Pringle. An Interview with J.G. Ballard 
1976: Jorg Krichbaum & Rein A. Zondergeld. “It would be a mistake to write about the future” 
1978: Jon Savage. J.G. Ballard 
1979: Christopher Evans. The Space Age is Over 
1982: Werner Fuchs & Joachim Korber. An Interview with J.G. Ballard 
1982: V. Vale. Interview with JGB 
1983: Sam Scoggins. Ninety Questions from the Eyckman Personality Quotient 
1984: Thomas Frick. The Art of Fiction 
1984: Peter Ronnov-Jessen. Against Entropy 
1985: Tony Cartano and Maxim Jakubowski. The Past Tense of J.G. Ballard 
1986: Solveig Nordlund. Future Now 
1988: James Verniere. A Conversation with J.G. Ballard 
1988: Rosetta Brooks. Myths of the Near Future 
1991: Jeremy Lewis. An Interview with J.G. Ballard 
1992: Phil Halper and Lard Lyer. The Visitor 
1993: Joan Bakewell. Memento: J.G. Ballard 
1994: Lukas Barr. Don’t Crash 
1995: Nicholas Zurbrugg. Empire of the Surreal 
1995: Will Self. Conversations: J.G. Ballard 
1996: Damien Love. “Kafka with unlimited Chicken Kiev”: J.G. Ballard on Cocaine Nights 
1996: Chris Rodley. Crash Talk: J.G. Ballard in Conversation with David Cronenberg 
1997: Mark Dery. J.G. Ballard’s Wild Ride 
1997: Richard Kadrey & Suzanne Stefanac. J.G. Ballard on William S. Burroughs’ Naked Truth 
1998: Zinovy Zinik. Russia on My Mind 
1999: Iain Sinclair. J.G. Ballard’s Cinema in the Slipstream of Discontent 
2000: John Gray. “Technology is always a facilitator”: J.G. Ballard on Super-Cannes 
2003: Hans Ulrich Obrist. “Nothing is real, everything is fake” 
2003: Chris Hall. “All we’ve got left is our own psychopathology”: J.G. Ballard on Millennium People 
2004: Jeannette Baxter. Reading the Signs 
2006: Toby Litt. “Dangerous bends ahead. Slow down”: J.G. Ballard on Kingdom Come 
2006: Simon Sellars. “Rattling other people’s cages” 
2006: Mark Goodall. An Exhibition of Atrocities: J.G. Ballard on Mondo Films 
2006: Jonathan Weiss. “Not entirely a journey without maps”: J.G. Ballard on The Atrocity Exhibition 
2007: Hari Kunzru. Historian of the Future 
2008: James Naughtie. “Up a kind of sociological Amazon”: J.G. Ballard on Miracles of Life 
Dan O’Hara. Afterword: Script-writing the Future 

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