Adieu Ballard
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Une info plus inquiétante: Kevin J. Anderson est déjà pressenti pour achever un livre que Ballard n'avait pas pu terminer. On parle aussi d'une préquelle de "Crash", mais là, ce n'est qu'une rumeur.jerome a écrit :Une petite info en sus : Denoël publiera d’ici la fin de l’année Miracles of life, l’autobiographie de l’écrivain anglais.
Oncle Joe
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bormandg
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Ni toi ni Anderson; la honte devrait aller à celui qui a pressenti Anderson plutôt que de publier le livre inachevé.Lensman a écrit :Ah, parce que, d'après toi, c'est moi et non Kevin J. Anderson qui devrait avoir honte?rmd a écrit :J'espere que tu as honte, oncle joe.
C'est le monde à l'envers!
Oncle Joe
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Transhumain
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Je viens de lire un hommage à Ballard sur la Yozone ( http://www.yozone.fr/spip.php?article7034 ). Bonne idée mais euh... L'île de béton serait d'inspiration burroughsienne et donc de lecture difficile (???), IGH serait un recueil (????), Ballard aurait refusé la réédition de plusieurs récits de son quatuor apocalyptique (?????) et le Crash de Cronenberg serait une adaptation d'une nouvelle d'Atrocity Exhibition et non du roman (??????)...
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jerome
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James Lovegrove John Clute rendent hommage à Ballard
Fantasy.Fr a mis en ligne un hommage de James Lovegrove à Ballard.
Petit extrait :
"Il était sans peur, quelqu’un de très cultivé et esthétiquement raffiné qui ne ressentait aucune honte à écrire dans un idiome (SF) qu’il aimait bien. Comme ambassadeur de notre genre et tout ce que ce genre peut offrir, on ne pouvait pas rêver de mieux."
J'ajoute un hommage de John Clute.
Voici le début :
"For 30 years J.G. Ballard had many readers in many lands. For them, everything he published was news. But after Steven Spielberg based a good though not incandescent film on his autobiographical novel, Empire of the Sun (1984), Ballard became publicly newsworthy over large parts of the world that his words had never reached directly.
He became a sage and prophet, whose visions of the cost of living in the modern world were an integral part of our understanding of the shape of things to come. At least one English dictionary has accepted "Ballardian" as a term descriptive of the landscape of the late 20th century: bleak, rusted out, choked with Ozymandian relics of the space age now past, dystopian – a landscape which surreally embodies the psychopathologies of modern humanity.
That none of this was new in Ballard's understanding of the world, his readers already understood. With an unwavering intensity of gaze, he had been reworking and refining the same fixed array of intuitions and insights from as early as the publication of his first science-fiction story, Prima Belladonna, in 1956. That story, like much of his early work, did not find easy entry into the British literary world. Almost every tale he wrote for more than a decade first appeared in a small British science-fiction magazine called New Worlds, at a time when British SF was formally and culturally very conservative. Only 10 years later, under the mid-1960s editorship of Michael Moorcock, would New Worlds become the natural home of the kind of transgressive, experimental, intensely written "New Wave" fiction that Ballard had been producing for years."
Petit extrait :
"Il était sans peur, quelqu’un de très cultivé et esthétiquement raffiné qui ne ressentait aucune honte à écrire dans un idiome (SF) qu’il aimait bien. Comme ambassadeur de notre genre et tout ce que ce genre peut offrir, on ne pouvait pas rêver de mieux."
J'ajoute un hommage de John Clute.
Voici le début :
"For 30 years J.G. Ballard had many readers in many lands. For them, everything he published was news. But after Steven Spielberg based a good though not incandescent film on his autobiographical novel, Empire of the Sun (1984), Ballard became publicly newsworthy over large parts of the world that his words had never reached directly.
He became a sage and prophet, whose visions of the cost of living in the modern world were an integral part of our understanding of the shape of things to come. At least one English dictionary has accepted "Ballardian" as a term descriptive of the landscape of the late 20th century: bleak, rusted out, choked with Ozymandian relics of the space age now past, dystopian – a landscape which surreally embodies the psychopathologies of modern humanity.
That none of this was new in Ballard's understanding of the world, his readers already understood. With an unwavering intensity of gaze, he had been reworking and refining the same fixed array of intuitions and insights from as early as the publication of his first science-fiction story, Prima Belladonna, in 1956. That story, like much of his early work, did not find easy entry into the British literary world. Almost every tale he wrote for more than a decade first appeared in a small British science-fiction magazine called New Worlds, at a time when British SF was formally and culturally very conservative. Only 10 years later, under the mid-1960s editorship of Michael Moorcock, would New Worlds become the natural home of the kind of transgressive, experimental, intensely written "New Wave" fiction that Ballard had been producing for years."
Jérôme
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'Pour la carotte, le lapin est la parfaite incarnation du Mal.' Robert Sheckley
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jerome
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L'hommage de Moorcock :
From the Ballardian site, Michael Moorcock's tribute:
"Although the literary press was quick to minimise his years as an sf writer, he made no effort to divorce himself from his sf roots, though preferring to call himself first a ’speculative’ and later an ‘apocalyptic’ writer. His influence was seen in the work of several of his admirers including Martin Amis, Will Self, Iain Sinclair, M. John Harrison and Christopher Priest. Tending, in those early years, to rely on me to introduce him to fellow spirits, like Burroughs, Chris Evans, Eduardo Paolozzi and even his companion Claire Walsh, Jimmy remained a private, modest and rather shy man, a loyal friend who, in spite of being admired by some of our best known literary writers, avoided what he called ‘the literary crowd’ even more than sf conventions..."
Le site Omnivoracious a compilé les hommages.
From the Ballardian site, Michael Moorcock's tribute:
"Although the literary press was quick to minimise his years as an sf writer, he made no effort to divorce himself from his sf roots, though preferring to call himself first a ’speculative’ and later an ‘apocalyptic’ writer. His influence was seen in the work of several of his admirers including Martin Amis, Will Self, Iain Sinclair, M. John Harrison and Christopher Priest. Tending, in those early years, to rely on me to introduce him to fellow spirits, like Burroughs, Chris Evans, Eduardo Paolozzi and even his companion Claire Walsh, Jimmy remained a private, modest and rather shy man, a loyal friend who, in spite of being admired by some of our best known literary writers, avoided what he called ‘the literary crowd’ even more than sf conventions..."
Le site Omnivoracious a compilé les hommages.
Jérôme
'Pour la carotte, le lapin est la parfaite incarnation du Mal.' Robert Sheckley
'Pour la carotte, le lapin est la parfaite incarnation du Mal.' Robert Sheckley
Evidemment, une appréciation sur Ballard par quelqu'un qui sait de qui et de quoi il parle, ça fait la différence... C'est agréable lire, même dans ces tristes circonstances.jerome a écrit :L'hommage de Moorcock :
From the Ballardian site, Michael Moorcock's tribute:
"Although the literary press was quick to minimise his years as an sf writer, he made no effort to divorce himself from his sf roots, though preferring to call himself first a ’speculative’ and later an ‘apocalyptic’ writer. His influence was seen in the work of several of his admirers including Martin Amis, Will Self, Iain Sinclair, M. John Harrison and Christopher Priest. Tending, in those early years, to rely on me to introduce him to fellow spirits, like Burroughs, Chris Evans, Eduardo Paolozzi and even his companion Claire Walsh, Jimmy remained a private, modest and rather shy man, a loyal friend who, in spite of being admired by some of our best known literary writers, avoided what he called ‘the literary crowd’ even more than sf conventions..."
Oncle Joe
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dracosolis
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je crois que Ballard refusait la réédition d'un seul des volumes de son cycle apocalyptique, non ?
mais j'ai oublié lequel (m'en fous je les ai tous)
moi la grande claque reste IGH, une merveille totale.
Perso aller demander à Lovegrove je trouve que c'est une excellente idée, j'avais retrouvé des accents ballardiens très nets dans son "Day"
(euh c'était ça le titre ? sais plus...vieillesse tout ça
mais j'ai oublié lequel (m'en fous je les ai tous)
moi la grande claque reste IGH, une merveille totale.
Perso aller demander à Lovegrove je trouve que c'est une excellente idée, j'avais retrouvé des accents ballardiens très nets dans son "Day"
(euh c'était ça le titre ? sais plus...vieillesse tout ça
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Roland C. Wagner
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