#trocchi — Public Fediverse posts
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The Alexander Trocchi papers – manuscripts, journals, notebooks, magazines & ephemera, including material relating to the International Situationist movement – are held at Washington University in St Louis
9/9
https://libguides.wustl.edu/c.php?g=1040037&p=7558427
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #Trocchi #modernism #Situationists
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“In an unpublished autobiographical novel… he used the experience of swinging on the trapeze over the pond at the Arlington Baths as a metaphor for childhood adventures around the tenements & streets of the West End”
8/9
https://arlingtonbathshistory.co.uk/2021/02/11/on-the-trapeze-with-alexander-trocchi/
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #Trocchi #modernism #Glasgow
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“For Alexander Trocchi as much as for George Mackay Brown, the world is always in need”
—Prof Alan Riach looks at 2 startlingly different 20th-century Scottish writers: Alexander Trocchi & George Mackay Brown
7/9
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #Trocchi #modernism #GeorgeMackayBrown
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“Scottish radical traditions have been airbrushed out of history… Re-examining the threads of Alexander Trocchi’s influence on culture, publishing and radical politics is an antidote to this process of erasure.”
Trocchi’s influence on radical Scottish media
6/9
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“𝘊𝘢𝘪𝘯’𝘴 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘬 is no diatribe, nor is it meant to be a manifesto. It is in fact a novel in the truest sense of that word, one that, like few novels these days, shakes up its own form in bold, new, risky ways”
—Peter Selgin, “More than Mere Oblivion”
5/9
https://www.craftliterary.com/2021/01/12/mere-oblivion-cains-book-peter-selgin/
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“Trocchi would barely have encountered Beckett’s work while he was finishing his first novel 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨 𝘈𝘥𝘢𝘮 but the marks of the Irish writer’s influence on 𝘊𝘢𝘪𝘯’𝘴 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘬 are undeniable and even explicit.”
—Calum Barnes on “Situating 𝘊𝘢𝘪𝘯’𝘴 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘬”
4/9
https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/06/19/situating-cains-book/
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #Trocchi #modernism #Beckett
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“There was a lot of wasted potential when it came to Alexander Trocchi. He did write one great book, though. It is called 𝘊𝘢𝘪𝘯’𝘴 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘬 and it… contains some of the sharpest and most poignant prose writing you’re ever going to encounter.”
—Morgan Meis on Trocchi
3/9
https://slantbooks.org/close-reading/essays/alexander-trocchi-cain-and-heroin/
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“I think Trocchi is important, more so now than ever. We’re living in a time when the very ‘uncreative work’ against which he permanently struck is dominating culture…”
—“A Moveable Void”: Tom McCarthy on Alexander Trocchi’s 𝘊𝘢𝘪𝘯’𝘴 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘬, in 3AM Magazine
2/9
https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/a-moveable-void-tom-mccarthy-on-alex-trocchis-cains-book/
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“The plotless beauty of his writing, and its fearless look at the emptiness of his own life, put ‘the Scottish Beat’ on a par with Kafka and Camus”
—Tony O’Neill on “The junky genius of Alexander Trocchi (1925–1984)”, born #OTD, 30 July. A 🎂 🧵
1/9
https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2007/aug/23/thejunkygeniusofalexander
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The Alexander Trocchi papers – manuscripts, journals, notebooks, magazines & ephemera, including material relating to the International Situationist movement – are held at Washington University in St Louis
6/6
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“In an unpublished autobiographical novel… he used the experience of swinging on the trapeze over the pond at the Arlington Baths as a metaphor for childhood adventures around the tenements & streets of the West End”
5/6
https://arlingtonbathshistory.co.uk/2021/02/11/on-the-trapeze-with-alexander-trocchi/
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“For Alexander Trocchi as much as for George Mackay Brown, the world is always in need”
—Prof Alan Riach looks at 2 startlingly different 20th-century Scottish writers: Alexander Trocchi & George Mackay Brown
4/6
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #Trocchi #GeorgeMackayBrown
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“There was a lot of wasted potential when it came to Alexander Trocchi. He did write one great book, though. It is called Cain’s Book and it… contains some of the sharpest and most poignant prose writing you’re ever going to encounter.”
—Morgan Meis on Trocchi, Cain, and heroin
3/6
https://slantbooks.org/close-reading/essays/alexander-trocchi-cain-and-heroin/
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“I think Trocchi is important, more so now than ever. We’re living in a time when the very ‘uncreative work’ against which he permanently struck is dominating culture…”
—A Moveable Void: Tom McCarthy on Trocchi’s CAIN’S BOOK, in 3AM Magazine
2/6
https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/a-moveable-void-tom-mccarthy-on-alex-trocchis-cains-book/
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“The plotless beauty of his writing, and its fearless look at the emptiness of his own life, put ‘the Scottish Beat’ on a par with Kafka and Camus.”
—Tony O’Neill on “The junky genius of Alexander Trocchi (1925–1984)”, born 100 years ago #OTD, 30 July – a 🎂 🧵
1/6
https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2007/aug/23/thejunkygeniusofalexander