Young Adam
- 172 pages
- 7 hours of reading
Alexander Trocchi Books
July 30, 1925 – April 15, 1984
Alexander Trocchi was a Scottish novelist whose early work explored marginalized characters and their struggles with raw realism. His style was often described as provocative and unflinching, delving into the darker aspects of human existence. He was a significant figure in the post-war literary scene, known for his distinctive voice and compelling narratives.
Sappho of Lesbos
- 224 pages
- 8 hours of reading
The Bloody Countess. Atrocities of Erzsebet Bathory
- 158 pages
- 6 hours of reading
This is the true, disturbing case history of a female psychopath, a chillingly lyrical account which has an unequalled power to evoke the decadent melancholy of doomed, delinquent aristocracy in a dark age of superstition.
Cain's Book
- 224 pages
- 8 hours of reading
Written in America while Trocchi was working on a scow on the Hudson River, Cain's Book is an extraordinary autobiographical account about a junky's life, and an honest, raunchy, eye-opening trip through hell. Probably the most famous novel about drug addiction and the hazards and excitements of an addict's life after Burrough's Naked Lunch, this modern classic - which was prosecuted in Britain for obscenity in 1965 - still shocks in its frankness and is relevant to this day.
An einem heißen Sommertag findet der Fährmann Joe eine Wasserleiche und beginnt eine Affäre mit der Frau seines Chefs. Als die Identität der Toten bekannt wird, eskaliert die Situation. Alexander Trocchi, beeinflusst von Camus, schafft mit diesem Psychothriller einen Anspruch auf 'Weltliteratur'.
