Alexander Trocchi

Alexander Trocchi ( born July 30, 1925 in Glasgow, † April 15, 1984 in London) was a Scottish writer.

He lived in the early 1950s in Paris and gave the literary journal Merlin out in the published among others, Henry Miller, Samuel Beckett, Christopher Logue and Pablo Neruda texts.

According to him, the magazine was a supposedly, as the U.S. State Department announced all their subscriptions in protest over an article by Jean -Paul Sartre.

In October 1955, he came up with the Lettrist International, and subsequently with the Situationist International in contact, as member he has authored numerous texts, such as "Invisible insurrection of a million minds " ( Invisible Insurrection of a Million Minds ) or " techniques of the world coups " ( technique du coup du Monde, published in the journal International Situationniste No. 8). He advocated an international spontaneous university as a cultural counter - power. With its Sigma project, he was a co-founder of the underground scene in the UK.

He left Paris later a heroin addict and lived for a time in Venice and Taos, New Mexico, USA, before he settled down in New York. Here he had contact with the Beat Generation and William S. Burroughs. His experiences and thoughts he wrote down in the book of Cain 's Book. The book was a scandal when it came out in London in 1963, it also came to the burning of books by outraged opponents to him. Among other glorification of drug accused

In the 1960s and 1970s he lived back in England, published very little and worked among other things as a book and drug dealers.

In the 1990s, his work was rediscovered by a new generation of young Scottish writer, one of his novels was filmed under the title Young Adam.

Quotes

  • In early life the things meet with the magic of their existence. The creative moment comes from the past and has some of that magic unbroken; in a ready-to- compromise attitude, it is impossible to be involved in him.
  • Many of the poets and painters in Paris who played in the early fifties Flipper; only a few, unfortunately, to have no feelings of guilt.

Works

  • The children of Cain, Suhrkamp 1982
  • What Frank Harris did not know, Olympia Press, Darmstadt 1969
  • Helène or desire, Olympia Press, Darmstadt, 1969 ( ISBN 978-3-942474-02-3 )
  • Watercourses, novel, translated from English by Ulrike Beck and Marie Rahn, Dt.EA, Berlin, 1997 Ullsteinhaus
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