One of the most influential and underrated books of the 20th century, J. G. Ballard's novel The Atrocity Exhibition, was published in Great Britain in 1970. It included 15 chapters, called by the author himself “condensed novels” and published separately as independent texts in various (mostly small-circulation) periodicals from 1966 to 1969; in the United States, after censorship delays and the destruction of the first printing, it was published under the title “Love and Napalm: US Export” in 1972. Due to the formal complexity of the text, this book, essentially central to Ballard’s work, remained for a long time in the shadow of the writer’s next novel, “Crash” (1973), which largely developed (and simplified) its ideas, known in Russia under the clumsy and inaccurate name “Car Crash.”