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Concrete Island: A Novel J. G. Ballard
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Driving home from his office in an ordinary day Robert Maitland has an accident and finds himself in a traffic island which is secluded from the motorway. Ballard novel that once again seeks to find new surface textures, derived from isolated themes. As built, the QEH and Hayward Gallery might be seen as the evolutionary link between the work of Louis Kahn and British High-Tech, although what most visitors experience is a concrete island of blind and introverted structures with weathered concrete hides as thick and grey as an elderly elephant: a mound of concrete . VA: The title of the series refers to the novel Concrete Island written by J.G. The concrete island onto which Maitland, the main character of Ballard's novel, crashes is a kind of mirror, it increasingly reflects back upon him the content of his own mind. According to director Brad Anderson, he will be re-teaming with actor Christian Bale for one of his upcoming films entitled CONCRETE ISLAND. NICOSIA (Reuters) – A Cypriot artist found a novel way to protest over Cyprus's financial meltdown on Monday, lining up 20 sculptures resembling a cross between toilets and tombstones outside the island's Central Bank. Concrete Island isn't one of Ballard's science fiction novels, but it shows many of the same concerns as a lot of science fiction, especially if you think of science fiction as a narrative strategy rather than simply a genre. In the story the protagonist's car veers off a multi-level motorway and lands on a verdant traffic island. Designer Simona Citarella returns with a new A/W 12-3 collection named "Concrete Island", after the J.G. Arranged in two rows on a pavement outside the building, the white “toilets” made of concrete and plaster caused traffic to slow down along a busy Nicosia avenue, with many drivers honking their horns in approval. The 'taste'less, odourless, colorless language of the novel fits perfectly to the landscape of the story (all quotations are from 2008 Harper Perennial edition): “Steam hissed and spurted from the crashed radiator of the car, spitting out drops of rusty water. Marooned by retreating floodwater, this ark evokes the memory of Joseph Conrad's novel 'Heart of Darkness' and the boat the 'Roi des Belges'. The story is an adaptation from the novel by J.G.