![]() ![]() It’s car crashes that cause sexual excitement amongst them, resulting in a lot of perverse car sex.įrom the start, it’s made aware that Vaughan’s ultimate fantasy would be to die during a head-on collision with movie actress, Elizabeth Taylor. SynopsisĬrash tells the story of James Ballard (named after the author) and how he comes to cross paths with Dr Robert Vaughan, a demon speeder on the London highways.Īround Vaughan is his group of misfit friends, all of which are car crash victims in one way or another, who help him to re-enact celebrity crashes. It’s these grand signals and ambitious claims that give the story it’s seemingly surreal intentions, whether intended or not. ![]() An intriguing gesture to peek inside the front cover if ever I did see one. Ballardīallard even goes as far as stating, ‘I would still like to think that Crash is the first pornographic novel based on technology’. ‘… the ultimate role of Crash is cautionary, a warning against that brutal, erotic and overlit realm that beckons more and more persuasively to us from the margins of the technological landscape.’ J.G. This was especially true in both the UK and the US. One of the reasons the book is still talked about today is because of David Cronenberg’s film adaption, which similarly caused a mass controversy upon release. ![]()
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