248 pages
English language
Published May 3, 2016
High-Rise is a 1975 novel by British writer J. G. Ballard. The story describes the disintegration of a luxury high-rise building as its affluent residents gradually descend into violent chaos. As with Ballard's previous novels Crash (1973) and Concrete Island (1974), High-Rise inquires into the ways in which modern social and technological landscapes could alter the human psyche in provocative and hitherto unexplored ways. It was adapted into a film of the same name, in 2015, by director Ben Wheatley.
Claustrofobia, abbruttimento, cicatrici e candaulesimo. Tutto il Ballard che conosco in una prosa povera nel liguaggio, ma accattivante oltre ogni limite nel contenuto.
