Crash

Resumen del libro

The definitive cult, post-modern novel a shocking blend of violence, transgression and eroticism.

When our narrator smashes his car into another and watches a man die in front of him, his sense of sexual possibilities in the world around him becomes detached. As he begins an affair with the dead man's wife, he finds himself drawn with increasing intensity to the mangled impacts of car crashes. Then he encounters Robert Vaughan, a former TV scientist turned nightmare angel of the expressway, who has gathered around him a collection of alienated crash victims and experiments with a series of erotic atrocities, each more sinister than the last. But Vaughan craves the ultimate crash - a head-on collision of blood, semen, engine coolant and iconic celebrity.

Biografía del autor

J. G. Ballard nació en Shangai en 1930, de padres ingleses. En 1961 publicó su primera novela, El mundo sumergido. Esta considerado como uno de los autores más destacados de la denominada New Wave en la ciencia ficción. En 1984 ganó el Guardian Fiction Prize y el James Tait Black Memorial Prize por su novela El imperio del Sol, que fue llevada a la pantalla por Steven Spielberg en 1987. Asimismo, su controvertida novela Crash fue adaptada al cine por David Cronenberg.