Crash: The Collector’s Edition. Chris Beckett
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‘In February 1972, two weeks after completing Crash, I was involved in my only serious car accident. After a front-wheel blowout my Ford Zephyr veered to the right, crossed the central reservation [ . . . ] and then rolled over and continued upside-down along the oncoming lane. Fortunately I was wearing a seat belt and no other vehicle was involved. An extreme case of nature imitating art.’
J. G. Ballard
CONTENTS
Copyright
‘Tolerances of the Human Face’
‘Princess Margaret’s Face Lift’
‘Mae West’s Reduction Mammoplasty’
Crash! BBC short film, directed by Harley Cokeliss (1971)
‘The Obsession of a Writer’: Initial treatment
J. G. Ballard: Introduction to the French edition of Crash (1974)
J. G. Ballard in conversation with Will Self (1994, extract)
About the Author
4th Estate
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This eBook first published in Great Britain by 4th Estate in 2017
Edited by Chris Beckett
Crash first published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape in 1973
Copyright © J. G. Ballard 1973
The right of J. G. Ballard to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All archive material reproduced from British Library collections
copyright © 2017 J. G. Ballard Estate Ltd.
‘Jim’s Desk’ and introductory notes © Chris Beckett 2017
‘Crash!’, first published by Institute of Contemporary Arts in 1969
and subsequently in The Atrocity Exhibition © J. G. Ballard 1969. ‘Tolerances of the Human Face’, first published in Encounter, 1969, and subsequently in The Atrocity Exhibition © J. G. Ballard 1969. ‘Coitus 80’, ‘Journey Across a Crater’ and ‘Princess Margaret’s Face Lift’, first published in New Worlds, January, February, March 1970 © J. G. Ballard 1970. ‘Mae West’s Reduction Mammoplasty’, first published in Ambit, summer 1970 © J. G. Ballard 1970. Introduction to French edition of Crash © J. G. Ballard 1974.
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Source ISBN: 9780007378340
Ebook Edition © March 2017 ISBN: 9780008257316
Version: 2017-03-16
This edition of Crash incorporates five extracts from the earlier of two draft manuscripts held at the British Library (BL Add MS 88938/3/8/1). The selections, which sometimes include autograph material on the backs of pages, are from chapters 1, 7, 17, 21 (numbered 22 in the draft) and 24 (25 in the draft). All selections correspond to the start of a chapter and precede the published text, except the third selection (Chapter 17, the car wash episode) which commences mid-chapter and has been placed at the end of the chapter:
draft pp. 1–5 correspond to Crash pp. 1–7 draft pp. 57–65 correspond to Crash pp. 77–87 draft pp. 167–73 correspond to Crash pp. 177–82 draft pp. 230–5 correspond to Crash pp. 227–37 draft pp. 257–62 correspond to Crash pp. 261–6