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SuperCannes A Novel J Ballard Books

While their are novels by J.G. Ballard I like however Super-Cannes isn't one of them.

It's very slow start so you have to read a lot till the story gets moving but it doesn't move any faster. A lot of detail to read which I felt could have been cut down a bit to get to the point and also felt the novel was flat. It has a idea but not enough to make it interesting. And last I felt the charterers really didn't interest me that much as they were boring.


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SuperCannes A Novel J Ballard Books Reviews

Many reviewers sneer at this book because they think the author repeated himself and said it better in his previous novels. Since I haven't read them, I enjoyed this one very much.

Super-Cannes is a literary Art novel. The plot is an imaginary, and dark, exploration about rewarding merit-based achievements with opportunities to unleash racism and class cruelty. I think this is a terribly flawed story; however, I keep see-sawing between three or four stars. I think 4 stars will be where I'll settle, but I wish I could select three and a half stars. The writing is stellar, even if the plot is far-fetched, and the storyline is a strong kick in the head.

Our hero, a title which I hesitate to use for this morally challenged man, Paul Sinclair, a publisher of aviation journals, and his wife, Dr. Jane Sinclair, a pediatrician/scientist, move to a business park called Eden-Olympia (subtle, eh?), near Cannes in France. Eden-Olympia is a gated community of extremely well-educated professional workers, each primary (and I mean primary!) adult and sometimes a spouse are employed by multinational companies whose offices are throughout the park alongside luxurious houses for the workers, given as part of the free premiums to which invited business elites are entitled. These intellectually gifted elites have a work ethic which matches their business acumen - it is a common to find them hard at work 24/7, finally stopping only when their libidos demand attention.

Spoilers warning!

Paul is crippled, symbolically and in actual fact, having crashed his airplane. His flying wings have been taken away because the accident was determined to have been due to his negligence. His knees were severely injured as well. He can walk, but an infection has set in and Paul is in constant pain. He doesn't seem to be healing. He hangs out at the pool resting his legs or takes long walks, while Jane works at what she considers her dream job, doing the research she has always wanted. She is in her 20's and he is much much older. There are a lot of jokes regarding how Paul robbed the cradle. They are also newlyweds, having met in the hospital during Paul's recovery. Now they are here in Super-Cannes, so called because of the implicit power and money residing within their walls. She signs a 6-month contract, then another, as Paul begins to use his time to investigate a former friend's death. By amazing coincidence, they live in the same house their friend, Dr. David Greenwood, had lived in before he apparently went insane and on a killing rampage, murdered 7 people.

Paul begins to see and hear disquieting things which make him suspicious of the official report of his friend's murders, especially because the security men are definitely unsavory in their deportment. There are cameras everywhere, so there must be recordings, but they've never been seen, having disappeared. Then he finds bullet shells where he shouldn't have, and he catches people in lies. There is a definite coverup going on, but why? Worse, when he comes home after wandering about, talking to people and seeing some terrible policing incidents, he finds Jane stupefied with injected drugs and having had sex with a neighbor's wife. Upon waking her, she is cheerful and happy, so he says and does nothing. Part of Paul's reticence to become upset is he has shameful secrets of his own, which a psychiatrist, Dr. Wilder Penrose, is encouraging him to allow himself to repeat in more depth without embarrassment. Dr. Penrose believes high performing individuals should be permitted whatever it takes to relax from their labors, given their contributions to society. Paul is oddly complacent with the nefarious doings he uncovers. As he digs deeper into the hidden life of Eden-Olympia, he seems to feel no need to stop it, much less become emotional over what clearly, to him, isn't his responsibility or problem. In fact, he kinda likes it.

This is my first J. G. Ballard book, and I liked it a lot despite the character exaggerations and the stretched landscape of reality the author indulged in. He wasn't writing a novel as much as he wrapped a story around a soap box disguised as a book to expound a viewpoint against fascism and how fascist thought becomes good to go despite the process of evil necessary to support it. It reminded me of social protest novels similar to some of Emile Zola's, Upton Sinclair's or John Steinbeck's, but it tries too hard to convince that human sadism is a general attribute of people who are successful or that hostile energies are what fuel the elite intelligencia, generally.

I could not believe that a typical middle-class person or upper class person would seek out sadism to relax. I know many people have fantasies which they would never enact in real life; however, in my opinion, greedy self-indulgence at the expense of others is in reality far more common than to bathe in blood for the fun of it.

But on the other hand, who doesn't know about Rwanda, the Soviet Union, China and Nazi Germany? Religion or political cultism, cultural prejudices, extreme childhood cruelty and psychopathic leaders have convinced entire nations to indulge themselves, or at minimum to feel entitled, to be sadistic because you can. However, I think all of the aforementioned items have to be present for enjoying bloodletting, torture and killing.

Still, I couldn't buy into this particular cult of all of the top executives and scientists overwhelmingly running wild after a few sessions of permissive philosophical therapy. Wall Street certainly is populated by folks who feel their every passing fancy should be indulged because they think themselves as gods - as shown by actual emails and recorded phone calls - but even most of them shiver at such immoral and irreversible acts such as murder - however, for some, not rape - > ( it should be noted.

Does Ballard believe elitism could really be this easily directed into utterly depraved pathological behavior? Does he think everyone possesses and would willingly submit to a dark side this destructive to others? Hmmmm.
Slow build up, great word play, clever descriptions. Once it picks up pace it really has you gripped. Only sour note, ending felt rushed. Nevertheless this story was able to pull on the different strings of my emotions. I genuinely felt for Paul by the end of it all.
Remarkably visionary, like all Ballard, but sometimes pedantic and plodding. There are also some timeline and character development weaknesses.Growing up in a "planned community," it is easy to appreciate the potential for a racist underbelly. Ballard takes it one step further.
If you’ve ever been to UC San Diego, you know the sensation. Somewhere beyond or beneath the manicured drives, mediocre consumables, and suburban superconductor labs in an incessant and persistent sun the most debauched dreams are unhinged only vía prescribed psychopathic orchestrations.
Welcome to Eden-Olympia, J.G. Ballard's latest setting for speculative fiction. Paul Sinclair just lost his pilot's license, and is moving with his young wife, Jane, who has just taken the pediatrician's position at the multinational business park and planned community. At first the only hesitation the couple has is that the gentleman who "vacated" Jane's post did so following a killing spree amongst his neighbors.
Upon their arrival, everything seems perfect, too perfect. Slowly, the veneer begins to peel away. Why were they put into the deceased Dr. Greenwood's house? Why won't anyone talk about the terrible tragedy? Where do all the husbands and business men go at night in their matching leather bowling jackets? And just what is Dr. Wilder Penrose, resident psychiatrist, doing with his "recreational therapy" program?
Driven by curiousity, and then fear for himself and his wife, Paul begins an investigation of his own, or is his just part of Penrose's alternative program?
An excellent view into the warping of modern, technological life. Despite being set in France, this tale plays more like a subtle American reality. A gentle and creeping psychological thriller, much like Ballard's last novel, Cocaine Nights.
While their are novels by J.G. Ballard I like however Super-Cannes isn't one of them.

It's very slow start so you have to read a lot till the story gets moving but it doesn't move any faster. A lot of detail to read which I felt could have been cut down a bit to get to the point and also felt the novel was flat. It has a idea but not enough to make it interesting. And last I felt the charterers really didn't interest me that much as they were boring.