Talk:High-Rise (novel)

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 * Has anyone raised the idea that the Cité radieuse, Marseille was the inspiration for the book? It seems to match the fictional block described very well (see Unité d'Habitation), having unusually middle class residents and diverse facilities (including a restaurant), in contrast to most subsequent high rises — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.113.77.81 (talk) 19:35, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

From Copyright problems:


 * High Rise looks like one, but I can't find where. Dunc_Harris|&#9786; 11:56, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)


 * I can't find it anywhere online - unless we can find it somewhere we can't really copyvio it. Secretlondon 01:12, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Dredd
It seems fairly clear that the book influenced John Wagner when he was creating Judge Dredd - this and Concrete Island - but surprisingly I can't find a good source, and I've thrown away my copy of Judge Dredd: The Mega-History. Does such a source exist? -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 15:55, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

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Just finished it and ... some questions
I enjoyed reading this and at some point in the future I hope to expand this appropriately. Before I do, just a couple of questions that someone here might be able to answer:


 * Consistently in the book, Ballard refers to the automated means of traveling between floors as elevators, i.e. the American term rather than the British lifts. I can only imagine this is a conscious choice, and I don't recall him doing it in his other works that I've read. Did he ever explain this?


 * It seems from the novel that the tower block complex is located where Canary Wharf is now (at a bend in the river, two miles east of the City). I've come across one commentator suggesting that he anticipated the redevelopment (apparently, although the LDDC didn't exist until 1981, six years after the novel, plans for redevelopment had first been floated in 1972, so Ballard could certainly have been aware of what might be). Am I right about this location?

Daniel Case (talk) 23:07, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

Also, it has since occurred to me, was Ballard perhaps influenced by Luis Buñuel's The Exterminating Angel? It, too, has bourgeois guests at a dinner party descend into violence, orgiastic sex, and cannibalism when they found themselves unable to leave the dining room, much as the high-rise inhabitants lose all interest in leaving despite the lack of physical barriers to their exit. Did anyone ever ask him about this? Daniel Case (talk) 06:02, 15 August 2018 (UTC)

Some sources to use when expanding the article
Critical works:


 * "Hyper-Organizational Space in the Work of J.G. Ballard", Organization, October 2008; Zhang, Spicer and Hancock.


 * 'The Texture of Modernity in J.G. Ballard's Crash, The Concrete Island and High-Rise, Sebastian Croes, In: Baxter J., Wymer R. (eds) J. G. Ballard: Visions and Revisions, (2012) Palgrave Macmillan, London

Ponte City High-Rise South Africa
Wasn't the Ponte City high-rise in South Africa the inspiration for the book High-Rise? 107.197.56.204 (talk) 22:23, 11 March 2024 (UTC)