The Crystal World
The Crystal World
Robert MacFarlane
J. G. Ballard
From J. G. Ballard, author of ‘Crash’ and ‘Cocaine Nights’ comes his extraordinary vision of an African forest that turns all in its path to crystal.Through a ‘leaking’ of time, the West African jungle starts to crystallize. Trees metamorphose into enormous jewels. Crocodiles encased in second glittering skins lurch down the river. Pythons with huge blind gemstone eyes rear in heraldic poses. Most flee the area in terror, afraid to face a catastrophe they cannot understand.But some, dazzled and strangely entranced, remain to drift through this dreamworld forest: a doctor in pursuit of his ex-mistress, an enigmatic Jesuit wielding a crystal cross and a tribe of lepers searching for Paradise.In this tour de force of the imagination, Ballard transports the reader into one of his most unforgettable landscapes.
J. G. Ballard
The Crystal World
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Fourth Estate
An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF www.4thestate.co.uk (http://4thestate.co.uk)
First published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape Ltd 1966
Copyright © J. G. Ballard 1966
PS™ Section interview copyright © Vanora Bennett 2004
Article ‘Ballard’s Worlds’ originally ‘J G Ballard’ from Visiting Mrs Nabokov by Martin Amis, published by Vintage. Reprinted by permission of The Random House Group Ltd.
PS™ is a trademark of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
J. G. Ballard asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental and beyond the intent of either the author or the publisher
All rights reserved under International and Pan–American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non–exclusive, non–transferable right to access and read the text of this e–book on–screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down–loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e–books.
HarperCollinsPublishers has made every reasonable effort to ensure that any picture content and written content in this ebook has been included or removed in accordance with the contractual and technological constraints in operation at the time of publication.
Source ISBN:9780586024195
Ebook Edition © JUNE 2012 ISBN: 9780007374892
Version: 2018-06-05
Epigraph (#u8367235d-7924-5e01-bd9e-0f689e87e7e0)
By day fantastic birds flew through the petrified forest, and jewelled crocodiles glittered like heraldic salamanders on the banks of the crystalline river.
By night the illuminated man raced among the trees, his arms like golden cartwheels, his head like a spectral crown…
CONTENTS
Cover (#ue8bfdc21-bbf9-5553-81bf-f3b639ee001c)
Title Page (#u0705d952-4518-5bc8-b766-4e44e946fe64)
Copyright
Epigraph
Part One: EQUINOX
CHAPTER ONE: THE DARK RIVER
CHAPTER TWO: THE JEWELLED ORCHID
CHAPTER THREE: MULATTO ON THE CATWALKS
CHAPTER FOUR: A DROWNED MAN
CHAPTER FIVE: THE CRYSTALLIZED FOREST
CHAPTER SIX: THE CRASH
Part Two: THE ILLUMINATED MAN
CHAPTER SEVEN: MIRRORS AND ASSASSINS
CHAPTER EIGHT: THE SUMMER-HOUSE
CHAPTER NINE: SERENA
CHAPTER TEN: THE MASK
CHAPTER ELEVEN: THE WHITE HOTEL
CHAPTER TWELVE: DUEL WITH A CROCODILE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: SARABAND FOR LEPERS
THE PRISMATIC SUN
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P. S. Ideas, interviews & features…
By the same author
About the Publisher
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Robert MacFarlane
J. G. Ballard
From J. G. Ballard, author of ‘Crash’ and ‘Cocaine Nights’ comes his extraordinary vision of an African forest that turns all in its path to crystal.Through a ‘leaking’ of time, the West African jungle starts to crystallize. Trees metamorphose into enormous jewels. Crocodiles encased in second glittering skins lurch down the river. Pythons with huge blind gemstone eyes rear in heraldic poses. Most flee the area in terror, afraid to face a catastrophe they cannot understand.But some, dazzled and strangely entranced, remain to drift through this dreamworld forest: a doctor in pursuit of his ex-mistress, an enigmatic Jesuit wielding a crystal cross and a tribe of lepers searching for Paradise.In this tour de force of the imagination, Ballard transports the reader into one of his most unforgettable landscapes.
J. G. Ballard
The Crystal World
Copyright (#u8367235d-7924-5e01-bd9e-0f689e87e7e0)
Fourth Estate
An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF www.4thestate.co.uk (http://4thestate.co.uk)
First published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape Ltd 1966
Copyright © J. G. Ballard 1966
PS™ Section interview copyright © Vanora Bennett 2004
Article ‘Ballard’s Worlds’ originally ‘J G Ballard’ from Visiting Mrs Nabokov by Martin Amis, published by Vintage. Reprinted by permission of The Random House Group Ltd.
PS™ is a trademark of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
J. G. Ballard asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental and beyond the intent of either the author or the publisher
All rights reserved under International and Pan–American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non–exclusive, non–transferable right to access and read the text of this e–book on–screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down–loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e–books.
HarperCollinsPublishers has made every reasonable effort to ensure that any picture content and written content in this ebook has been included or removed in accordance with the contractual and technological constraints in operation at the time of publication.
Source ISBN:9780586024195
Ebook Edition © JUNE 2012 ISBN: 9780007374892
Version: 2018-06-05
Epigraph (#u8367235d-7924-5e01-bd9e-0f689e87e7e0)
By day fantastic birds flew through the petrified forest, and jewelled crocodiles glittered like heraldic salamanders on the banks of the crystalline river.
By night the illuminated man raced among the trees, his arms like golden cartwheels, his head like a spectral crown…
CONTENTS
Cover (#ue8bfdc21-bbf9-5553-81bf-f3b639ee001c)
Title Page (#u0705d952-4518-5bc8-b766-4e44e946fe64)
Copyright
Epigraph
Part One: EQUINOX
CHAPTER ONE: THE DARK RIVER
CHAPTER TWO: THE JEWELLED ORCHID
CHAPTER THREE: MULATTO ON THE CATWALKS
CHAPTER FOUR: A DROWNED MAN
CHAPTER FIVE: THE CRYSTALLIZED FOREST
CHAPTER SIX: THE CRASH
Part Two: THE ILLUMINATED MAN
CHAPTER SEVEN: MIRRORS AND ASSASSINS
CHAPTER EIGHT: THE SUMMER-HOUSE
CHAPTER NINE: SERENA
CHAPTER TEN: THE MASK
CHAPTER ELEVEN: THE WHITE HOTEL
CHAPTER TWELVE: DUEL WITH A CROCODILE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: SARABAND FOR LEPERS
THE PRISMATIC SUN
Keep Reading (#u7a2fbc5e-6bcf-5fc9-9a26-2a3348f42af5)
P. S. Ideas, interviews & features…
By the same author
About the Publisher
Part One (#u8367235d-7924-5e01-bd9e-0f689e87e7e0)
Конец ознакомительного фрагмента.
Текст предоставлен ООО «ЛитРес».
Прочитайте эту книгу целиком, купив полную легальную версию (https://www.litres.ru/j-g-ballard-4/the-crystal-world/) на ЛитРес.
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Robert MacFarlane и J. Ballard
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Жанр: Современная зарубежная литература
Язык: на английском языке
Издательство: HarperCollins
Дата публикации: 16.04.2024
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О книге: From J. G. Ballard, author of ‘Crash’ and ‘Cocaine Nights’ comes his extraordinary vision of an African forest that turns all in its path to crystal.Through a ‘leaking’ of time, the West African jungle starts to crystallize. Trees metamorphose into enormous jewels. Crocodiles encased in second glittering skins lurch down the river. Pythons with huge blind gemstone eyes rear in heraldic poses. Most flee the area in terror, afraid to face a catastrophe they cannot understand.But some, dazzled and strangely entranced, remain to drift through this dreamworld forest: a doctor in pursuit of his ex-mistress, an enigmatic Jesuit wielding a crystal cross and a tribe of lepers searching for Paradise.In this tour de force of the imagination, Ballard transports the reader into one of his most unforgettable landscapes.