KONIEC MILENIUM, KONIEC ŚWIATA KULTURA SCHYŁKU XX WIEKU W OPOWIADANIACH J.G. BALLARDA
THE END OF THE MILLENNIUM, THE END OF THE WORLD. THE LATE 20 CENTURY CULTURE IN THE SHOR TH T STORIES OF J.G. BALLARD

Summary/Abstract: My article aims at analyzing selected short stories by J.G. Ballard in reference to the end of the 20th century culture. His early “psychoanalytic” stories describe the inner space of contemporary people who live in permanent stress. His later texts belong in avant-garde and are influenced by socially traumatic events such as the assassination of J.F. Kennedy, the war in Vietnam, and the end of the Apollo program. The latest stories are a critique of the TV society with its propensity for sex and violence.

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