Almost twenty floors below lives Richard Wilder, a brutal and hot-headed documentary filmmaker, with his pregnant wife and their children. There is Robert Laing, a recently-divorced doctor and lecturer who moves in on the 25 th floor following his sister’s advice. Three characters are at the centre of High-Rise. When a building turns into a brutal jungle The book follows the abrupt escalation of violence, madness and psychosis of the two thousand residents of this modern – especially for the 1970s – forty-storey tower block. How do buildings influence human behavior? With his dystopian novel High-Rise (1975), English writer James Graham Ballard, known as ‘J.G’, tries to answer this question, focusing on a luxury high-rise on the outskirts of London, in present-day Canary-Wharf.
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