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'Miracles of Life' opens and closes in Shanghai, the city where J.G.Ballard was born, and where he spent the most of the Second World War interned with his family in a Japanese concentration camp.

J.G. Ballard was, for over fifty years, one of this country’s most significant writers. Beginning with the events that inspired his classic novel, “Empire of the Sun”, in this revelatory autobiography he charts the course of his astonishing life.

“Miracles of Life” takes us from the vibrant surroundings of pre-war Shanghai, to the deprivations and unexpected freedoms of Lunghua Camp, to Ballard’s arrival in a devastated Britain. Ballard recounts his first attempts at fiction and his part in the social and artistic revolutions of the 60s. He describes his friendships with figures as diverse as Kingsley Amis, Michael Moorcock and Eduardo Paolozzi alongside recollections of his domestic life in Shepperton – raising three children as a single father following the unexpected and premature death of his wife.

“Miracles of Life” is both a captivating narrative of the experiences that have shaped this extraordinary writer’s works, his distinctive outlook and his original visions of the future, and is also an account of a remarkable life.

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  5. 寸法
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‘A particular delight of this lyrical autobiography lies in spotting the landscapes and events that appear subtly reconfigured, in Ballard's fiction.’ Observer ‘Critics’ Picks for 2008’

‘The long–awaited memoirs of one of the most interesting British writers.’ Sunday Times ‘Picks for 2008’

‘This book should make yet more converts to a cause that Ballard's devotees have been pleading for years: that here, bafflingly unacknowledged, has been one of the greatest and sharpest imaginations at work in literature.’ Independent on Sunday

‘Unobtrusively well–written…and fascinating.’ Literary Review

'The origins of this extraordinary and wonderful writer are now set out in this pellucid, forgiving, tranquil autobiography…this is a remarkable autobiography, treating events which most of us can barely imagine with tranquil dignity and exactness…Ballard has carried out Matthew Arnold's imprecation to “see life steadily and see it whole”. This is an unforgettable farewell.' The Spectator

'Brilliant and mesmerising…this wonderful, clear-sighted autobiography…has a wisdom and depth that makes you long to hug the author and say '”Thank you” and wish him well.' Daily Mail

'What this brief, modest and occasionally shattering book only glances at is the extraordinary body of work that has flowed from this remarkable life…fascinating…."Miracles of Life" also tells quite another story, unconscious and inadvertent, but finally brave in a way that elevates it to a level of greatness.' The Observer

'Exquisitely written…"Miracles of Life", a subtle, restlessly enquiring work of touching humanity, is Ballard's crowning achievement.' Financial Times

'A jewel…as a writer, he can simply take the breath away.' The Independent

'J.G. Ballard's memoir may be short but it is long on compassion, humour and insight…it is infused with a tremendous generosity of spirit.' Tatler

著者について

J. G. Ballard was born in 1930 in Shanghai, where his father was a businessman. After internment in a civilian prison camp, he and his family returned to England in 1946. He published his first novel, The Drowned World, in 1961. His 1984 bestseller Empire of the Sun won the Guardian Fiction Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His memoir Miracles of Life was published in 2008. J. G. Ballard died in 2009.

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  • 出版社 ‏ : ‎ Fourth Estate Ltd (2008/2/4)
  • 発売日 ‏ : ‎ 2008/2/4
  • 言語 ‏ : ‎ 英語
  • ハードカバー ‏ : ‎ 288ページ
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0007270720
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0007270729
  • 寸法 ‏ : ‎ 14.1 x 2.8 x 22.2 cm
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Clarice Stasz
5つ星のうち5.0 The real Ballard in full complexity
2013年5月14日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済み
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Ballard is known for his dystopian, erotic impuses, and psychological science fiction. His stories intimate a classic grouchy British male, when he lived for the most part a very bourgeois, family-loving life. His art was a brilliant representation of the part of his life structured by a youth in Shanghai, before and during WWII. This short memoir was composed upon diagnosis of terminal cancer.

More memoir writers should follow his model, one of encompassing a life divided among single parenthood, writing, and art. He corrects misconceptions based upon his fictional novels structured on his own life events, such as fact his parents were in the internment camp with him, or that his wife died in a matter other than explained in The Kindness of Women. In the process, he offers hints to writers about ways to adapt personal material for stronger effect.

New to me was his involvement with the dadaist English art world of the 1950s, which included an exhibit of crashed cars, leading of course to his eventual writing of Crash. I was also ignorant of his initial work in science fiction. This is a stunning work by a man with a very complicated psychology, who managed to take what could have been very destructive impulses and transformed them on the page or in the art gallery.
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Lupina83
5つ星のうち5.0 Super !
2014年9月2日にドイツでレビュー済み
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Schnelle Lieferung. Das Buch ist ohne jegliche Macke angekommen. Auf Abbaubarem Papier gedruckt. Toller Lieferdienst!

Zum Buch: Es ist eine tolle Ergänzung für jeden der am Werk und am Leben von JG Ballard interessiert ist. Von seiner Reise von Shanghai wo er als kleiner Junge einiges durchleben musste bis zu seinem Aufstieg als Autor.
Es ist sehr gut auch für Menschen geeignet die nur Grund-Englisch beherrschen. Einfache Phrasen und Sätze, äußerst Angenehm zu lesen. Ich hab es sogar lieber gelesen als High Rise.

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Robert Elle
5つ星のうち5.0 A Remarkable Man's Remarkable Life
2009年6月3日にカナダでレビュー済み
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Ballard's memoirs comprise a surprisingly modest-sized tome, considering his eventful life, but one bursting with candor, wit, and warmth that might surprise longtime readers accustomed to the more clinical, cerebral, and incendiary language of his notorious works like "Crash", "High Rise", and "The Atrocity Exhibition". His anecdotal tour of life in wartime Shanghai as a privileged foreigner and POW, and post-war Britain as a young widower and controversial author, reads all the more bittersweet in that it was written with the knowledge of his impending demise from prostate cancer.

Much of the first half is devoted to his childhood in a Japanese internment camp --fictionalized (although only partially so) in "Empire Of The Sun"--and the culture shock of returning to stodgy, repressed post-war England. Dallying in medical school at Cambridge U, he yearns to be a writer and his imagination becomes electrified when he is introduced to the surrealist art movement at The National Gallery. Still struggling finding his voice, he joins the RAF and is sent for training to Winnipeg, Canada, where a turnstile of science fiction novels (in Moose Jaw!) inspires him to explore and rethink this misunderstood genre. Returning to England as an ad copywriter, he marries a woman who supports his aspirations and fathers three children. But his wife dies too young from pneumonia, leaving him a single father just as his writing career is taking off. Putting his children first, he still manages to launch "New World" magazine with Michael Moorcock and changes the course of science fiction literature.

The latter part of the book chronicles his friendships with various avant-garde artists and rebel scientists (he disdained the pretentious "literary" crowd and their middlebrow notions of what constituted "serious" writing--although did find a friend and supporter in Kingsley Amis) candid (if innocent) accounts of drug experimentation, adventures in moviemaking with Spielberg and Cronenberg (and to a lesser degree, Hammer Films' "When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth"!), his return to his boyhood Shanghai homes (his family's opulent mansion, and the internment camp where they spent several years), and finding love again.

"Science fiction is the only true literature of the 20th century", Ballard believed, and presumably, he'd include this new one, too (how wonderful he'd lived to see it), given how prescient so much of his once-outrageous works have revealed themselves to be (how many authors' names have become an adjective?). His body of work is even more astonishing when one considers that almost every bit of it was written while he raised two girls and a boy. Aspiring artists out there (including me): you no longer have an excuse for not writing!
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G Talboys
5つ星のうち5.0 Beautifully told
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This is a curious mixture of a book. Granted that it was written under strained and special circumstances, it is both revealing and concealing in equal measure. If you are familiar with Ballard's work and have taken an interest in him over the years, you will find nothing new here. It is, however, a joy to have it in one volume. And for all its apparent superficiality, we learn a great deal about Ballard from the structure and level of content of this work.

Nearly half the book is devoted to Ballard's first fifteen years, the time he lived in Shanghai and experienced the strange life of an expatriate community as well as internment by the Japanese. This is also the most fluent and vibrant part of the book.

It may well be that writing of his early life in his fiction, especially in Empire of the Sun, means he is well rehearsed. But it is clear these formative years are seared not just into his memory, but also his psyche. The things he saw and experienced have re-appeared time and again in his writings, sometimes filtered, but always from the same roots.

Elsewhere, there is a reticence, a shyness that produces a sketchy feeling, as if we are seeing an early draft. A pioneer of explorations into the sf of `inner space', his own inner space is closely guarded. Yet what he chooses to conceal is revealing in itself. He speaks of family life, for example, but whilst it is clear that his family was the bright sun at the centre of his universe, dimmed for a while by the sudden death of his wife, it is also clear that the rest is nobody's business but his own and theirs. I find this wonderfully refreshing - we are strangers, after all, those of us who read his books.

As a writer myself, I confess I was disappointed that Ballard did not discuss how he wrote or consider the processes by which developed certain styles, especially his concentrated novels. I would love to have known more of those early days and the discussions he had with other writers of the so-called `New Wave'. On the other hand I am not altogether surprised. Whilst undoubtedly a highly intelligent man and a skilled and innovative writer, he has never been one of the `literati', self-dissecting and self-obsessed. His work must (and does) speak for itself - with a voice that is robust, fluent, exciting, innovative, often tackling the controversial, but always worth listening to.
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Andy Sanderson
5つ星のうち5.0 Possibly the best written autobiography ever?
2020年4月5日に英国でレビュー済み
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I will admit up front that i have always loved Ballard, primarily for his beautiful prose, and insightful phrases, that sometimes bring you up short and force you to go back and read them again. That said, i used to read his books with a dictionary by my side (no longer necessary in these Kindle days!) to understand the, usually medical or scientific, references that meant nothing to me.

Having read Empire of the Sun, and the Kindness of Women, both of them fiction, but both obviously lifting heavily from Ballard’s own life, I wondered how much an actual autobiography would bring, but if you have read (and loved) his fiction, this is an almost essential read. The same beautiful prose, that makes you want to go back and re-read passages just for the beauty of it, but also the genuine insights into the mind of the man that wrote so many incredible and genre-breaking books. The symbols we all recognise from his books are all here in his autobiography - the drained swimming pools, the gated communities, the disengaged societies...

But somehow it makes Ballard himself so much more human, when it would be so easy to dismiss him as one of his own characters, isolated from the world and cold. There is an irony to the fact that the last book he ever wrote was his own (true) autobiography, almost as if it was the key that unlocked everything else he ever wrote. We will probably never see another writer like Ballard, and this ability to have a glimpse into the real man is a true gem to those of us that see his books as a catalogue of truly great writing.
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