I’ve often wondered about Ballard’s propensity to name his protagonists after writers- Melville, Traven, Blake, even himself (in Crash), all the while claiming he ‘wasn’t a literary man’. Michael Moorcock even asserted Moby Dick was the only novel in Ballard’s house...
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2. ...preferred art, particularly modern art, to literature. He explored the inner space, the only refuge of the real in the age of a simulacrum, and so achieved universal recognition by becoming extremely particular.
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