![]() It just happens, the sun becomes unstable – a bit like the moon exploding at the onset of Seveneves. While The Drowned World is often named as a climate change novel, maybe even the first one, it doesn’t fully fit the bill: in Ballard’s debut novel, climate change is not man-made. On the other hand, Ballard seems to encourage this interpretative method of searching for latent symbolism.īefore I will add my two cents to the debate – and I’ll keep it short – let me do the non-political part of the review. The arguments are interesting, but the reading might be reductive. ![]() In that review, BlackOxford develops a mostly symbolic reading of the text that accuses Ballard of racism. Each one of us is as old as the entire biological kingdom, and our bloodstreams are tributaries of the great sea of its total memory.”Īt times, I read up on books while reading them, and this time my explorations of other reviews significantly colored my reading, in particular the review of BlackOxford on Goodreads. ![]() ![]() “The brief span of an individual life is misleading. ![]()
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