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Day of Creation (Paperback)

by J.G. Ballard (Author)
3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Inc (1 Jan 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0374525773
  • ISBN-13: 978-0374525774
  • Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 14.1 x 3.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,861,848 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"All the surreal, voluptuous intensity of a fever dream." -"The New Yorker"
"Ballard has successfully created a new myth, a late-20th-century saga of distracted humans making a lonely voyage through time and the river to the well-spring of their parched imaginations." -Paul Gray, "Time"
""The Day of Creation" is a metaphysical adventure story dealing with complex themes--the life-giving qualities of water, the cold eye of television, obsession, love--all set in a dream Africa, as if hallucinated by Joseph Conrad.." -Angela Carter

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5.0 out of 5 stars One of his mid-period masterpieces, 27 Aug 2007
By David Tomlinson "chinese_bookie" (Chicago) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Day of Creation (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) (Paperback)
I couldn't disagree more with the previous reviewer. While I've always favored Ballard's early classics, this mid-period novel is also a classic.

As Dr. Mallory wanders through this 'fever dream' landscape of modern Africa, much like the river than bears his name, you get glimpses of Ballard's brave new world. The one in which we live today: a wasteland, one littered with "beer bottles, cigarette packs and French pornographic magazines" , old air conditioners, water coolers, tires and fuel drums, in short "a terminal moraine of modern technology".

Ballard is a social theorist, as well as the best writer of English fiction of the 20th Century. Certainly that informs his writing.

All in all, this is one of Ballard's best novels of the 80's. I've owned them all, and have read some of them a dozen times. I recommend this book to all who love his prose, his vision, and his view of the world.

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1 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars nonsensical, but not in a clever way, 10 Jun 2002
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This review is from: The Day of Creation (Flamingo modern classic) (Paperback)
a "metaphysical" novel apparently. i recently read paul auster's new york trilogy which seems to try to work on a similar level, but where auster succeeds in creating a wonderfully eerie confusion of events which cannot be questioned, ballard fails. it tries to be clever, but you find yourself being able to pick apart why it really doesnt make sense.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Imaginative, but characterless and clumsy, 29 Jan 2009
By pingpong (Edinburgh) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Day of Creation (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) (Paperback)
I agree with the 'non-sensical' review.
Ballard has imagination but I got really tired of this novel. The characters lack any depth, you do not become engaged. This is a characteristic of Ballards work actually
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