What is the title of JG Ballard's autobiographical novel, set in Japanese occupied Shanghai in the second world war?
J. G. Ballard depiction of a luxury apartment building's descent into violent chaos. While much of Ballard's fiction would prove thematically and stylistically provocative, he became best known for his relatively conventional war novel, "Empire of the Sun" (1984), a semi-autobiographical account of a young British boy's experiences in Shanghai during Japanese occupation. Described by "The Guardian" as "the best British novel about the Second World War", the story was adapted into a 1987 film by Steven Spielberg starring Christian Bale. In the following decades until his death in 2009, Ballard's work shifted toward the form of the traditional crime novel. Several of
Schweik in the Second World War Schweik in the Second World War Schweik in the Second World War ("Schweyk im Zweiten Weltkrieg") is a play by German dramatist and poet Bertolt Brecht. It was written by Brecht in 1943 while in exile in California, and is a retelling of the 1923 novel "The Good Soldier Švejk" by Jaroslav Hašek. "Schweik in the Second World War" is set in Nazi-occupied Prague and on the Russian Front during World War II. In a summary written for potential composer Kurt Weill (Hans Eisler, ultimately, became Brecht's chief musical collaborator for the work), it was written: "The Good Soldier Schweyk,