by James Graham Ballard · Editions Gallimard · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070445455
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«La forêt de cristal» is the science fiction novel by J.G. Ballard, published by Editions Gallimard in paperback (250 pages, in French).
Doctor Edward Sanders travels to Mont Royal, Cameroon, to locate his colleague Max Clair and Suzanne, his former lover. He discovers that the nearby forest is shrouded in mystery and that strange crystal objects are sold at the market. The connection between these pieces, the jungle and the dark light emanating from it structures this science fiction novel.
It is the fourth and last of J.G. Ballard's four apocalypses, after Le vent de nulle part, Le monde englouti and Sécheresse. The French translation is by Michel Pagel.
For readers of science fiction and dystopias, as well as for those who follow Ballard's work.
James Graham Ballard was an English novelist and short-story writer, satirist and essayist known for psychologically provocative works of fiction that explore the relations between human psychology, technology, sex and mass media. Ballard first became associated with New Wave science fiction for post-apocalyptic novels such as The Drowned World (1962). He later courted controversy with the short-story collection The Atrocity Exhibition (1970), which includes the 1968 story "Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan", and later the novel Crash (1973), a story about car-crash fetishists.
