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Love Ballard's novels. Recently finished The Day of Creation which had echoes of Conrad's Heart of Darkness but where the hero this time is Kurtz. Seems like a
by thinkingemote 3y ago
Love Ballard's novels. Recently finished The Day of Creation which had echoes of Conrad's Heart of Darkness but where the hero this time is Kurtz.
Seems like all of his novels are about an everyday man who encounters some unsettling kind of wildness or chaos and then "goes native" and achieves some kind of abnormal stability.
- cgh 3y agoKind of the opposite of Paul Bowles, whose characters seem unable to grasp the alien cultures and situations in which they find themselves, to their peril. Since it's Bowles, most of the time "alien" means "Morocco".