It's with such groundbreaking, visionary works as The Atrocity Exhibition, High-Rise and Crash that a personal vision dares to express the unacknowledged. With unflinching commitment, Ballard presents us with disturbingly plausible psychopathologies, which in turn highlight the true self-destructive nature of our relationship with the modern world...
His work continued to be relevant, fine-tuning a double-sided formula of alienation and familiar references. The British psyche informed every aspect of his writings and was repeatedly dissected. But the poignancy of his work surpasses the colours and shapes of any flag.It tells of the human condition at odds with a set of castrating codes that we, ourselves, create and disguise as Progress.
JG Ballard came full circle in his own body of work and now rests in peace. His books will go on living. I will continue to be inspired by them for the rest of my own life. With the certainty that more and more possibilities can be found in that exhilirating pause one experiences between chapters of his novels..." - João Paulo Simões
