Helen And Desire by Alexander Trocchi
How difficult it is to explain! The terribly mute hunger in our bodies! If I touch my thigh here in the near darkness of the tent my whole body is again instinct with the driving urge that brought me here, and I cannot explain it. As always, it is stronger than fear. For me it has always been that way . . . When the irrepressible Helen runs away from the small town she grew up in, she discovers a world of excitement and experience beyond even her imagination, from Sydney to Singapore, Bombay, Monte Carlo and the Sahara desert. A subversive and deeply suggestive masterpiece, Helen and Desire is Trocchi's greatest erotic novel.
An extraordinary novel, which celebrates sexuality against a background of feminine identity and liberationAn underground book for too long, it deserves a wider public and will add a lush frisson to the renewed interest in Trocchi -- Edwin Morgan
Trocchi's development of character and story is handled with great sensitivity and really does merit your attention - this is the work of a gifted wordsmith. * * Scottish Book Review * *
A spicily pornographic tale - Trocchi has a keen eye for the absurdities of the genre. The tale is also enhanced by an elegant and intelligent introduction by Edwin Morgan. * * The Scotsman * *
The outlaw prince of Scottish literature, Trocchi set the standard for all subversives and saboteurs - Helen & Desire has a sophistication unusual for its "porno" genre -- James Campbell * * The Guardian * *
Trocchi's development of character and story is handled with great sensitivity and really does merit your attention - this is the work of a gifted wordsmith. * * Scottish Book Review * *
A spicily pornographic tale - Trocchi has a keen eye for the absurdities of the genre. The tale is also enhanced by an elegant and intelligent introduction by Edwin Morgan. * * The Scotsman * *
The outlaw prince of Scottish literature, Trocchi set the standard for all subversives and saboteurs - Helen & Desire has a sophistication unusual for its "porno" genre -- James Campbell * * The Guardian * *
Alexander Trocchi was born in Glasgow on 30 July, 1925. At various points in his life he was a straight-A student, a pig farmer, a family man, a pimp, a heroin addict, a pornographer, a dealer in antique books, a forger, a polemicist, a revolutionary, a literary editor, a 'cosmonaut of inner space', and not least a novelist and writer. The best of his novels include Helen and Desire, Young Adam, and the semi-autobiographical junk classic, Cain's Book. He died in 1984 at the age of 59.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780857869418 |
| ISBN 10 | 0857869418 |
| Title | Helen And Desire |
| Author | Alexander Trocchi |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Canongate Books |
| Year published | 2012-08-16 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
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