What I believe - J. G. Ballard

I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.

I believe in my own obsessions, in the beauty of car crash, in the peace of the submerged forest, in the excitements of the deserted holiday beach, in the elegance of automobile graveyards, in the mystery of multistorey car parks, in the poetry of abandoned hotels.

I believe in the forgotten runways of Wake Island, pointing toward the Pacifics of our imaginations.

I libri principali dello scrittore sono: La mostra delle atrocità, probabilmente il suo capolavoro, dopo tre anni pubblica Crash in cui riprende i temi del romanzo precedente e dal quale è stato tratto un film per la regia di David Cronenberg. Abbandonato il tema della fantascienza scrive il romanzo L'impero del sole dalla forte componente autobiografica. Il suo ultimo romanzo è Regno a venire (Kingdom Come), una opera di critica sociale dove parla di consumismo, della società tardo capitalistica, dei mass media.

The Futurism

Futurism – The Scuderie del Quirinale, in conjunction with the Musée National d’Art Moderne – Centre George Pompidou in Paris and with the Tate Modern in London, is devoting a exhibition to mark the 100th anniversary of the Manifesto of Futurism published by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in Paris.

Blade Runner

I've seen things you people

wouldn't believe. Attack ships

on fire off the shoulder of Orion.

I watched c-beams glitter in the

dark near the Tannhauser Gate.

All thoese...moments will be lost...

in time, like tears...in rain.

Time to die.

Androide Roy Batty

Blade Runner, 1982

Stieg Larsson

STIEG LARSSON (1954-2004)

He wrote three novels in his trilogy Millenium: The girl with the dragon tattoo – The girl who played with fire – Castles in the sky. Stieg was known for his struggle against racism. He founded the Expo-foundation in 1995, he was he chief editor of Expo, a magazine. I feel lost and sad because Stieg Larsson left us, he died of heart attack.

I love his books. I bought the first book by chance but I loved it. I couldn’t put down the books until I was finished because they are clever and intriguing stories. The girl with the dragoon tattoo is one of the best books I have ever read. Larsson captures the middle of the life in Sweden. This is the first book that I have read that takes place in Sweden. Lisbet is my hero, I love her form the first page.


We’ll miss you……