For example, in the case of Crash, High-Rise and The Atrocity Exhibition, I offer an extreme hypothesis for the reader to decide whether the hypothesis I advance (this extreme metaphor to deal with an extreme situation) is proven." I leave for the reader to decide what the moral and psychological conclusions to be drawn from my fiction should be. As he told Greame Revell in 1983, "I would say that a lot of my fiction is, if you like, open-ended. The seeming irrationality of it all is, of course, just part of Ballard's modus operahndi.
Ballard has often told interviewers that his characters all seek a kind of highly personal psychic salvation, and that they will, if necessary, create their own self-defining mythologies and pursue them to their furthest logical ends, no matter how illogical it seems, or what the cost. welcome to High-Rise, JG Ballard's deeply subversive study of a society in transformation. A night patrol creeps along a dark hallway past a barricade of desks a flash of white birds leap into the air like a fluttering flag of surrender a dog lies drowned in the middle of a community pool.
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