Having been lured into a social gathering at one of his new neighbor’s apartments, Dr. Richard Laing and lower-floor resident, Richard Wilder), we are given perhaps the most explicit acknowledgement of Ballard’s urban planning metaphor. Early on in the novel, which is narrated by three different male voices (that of the building’s architect, Anthony Royal new tenant, Dr. Ballard’s vertical-living dystopia, High-Rise is oppressively preoccupied with the body as both flesh and metaphor. He was constantly aware of the immense weight of concrete stacked above him, and the sense that his body was the focus of the lines of force running through the building, almost as if Anthony Royal had deliberately designed his body to be held within their grip.- J.G. Sign up for our newsletter to get submission announcements and stay on top of our best work.
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