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	Alexander (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alexander Balas, ruler of the Seleucid kingdom of Syria between 150 and 146 BC
		Alexander I of Russia, (1777-1825), emperor of Russia
		Alexander III of Russia, (1845 - November 1, 1894), emperor of Russia
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	Alexander Trocchi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Trocchi claimed that this journal came to an end when the US State Department cancelled its many subscriptions in protest over an article by Jean-Paul Sartre praising the homo-eroticism of Jean Genet.
		Interest in Trocchi and his role in the avant-garde movements of the mid 20th century began to rise soon after his death.
		Edinburgh Review published a "Trocchi Number" in 1985 and their parent house published a biography and anthology in 1991.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexander_Trocchi (577 words)

	BBC - Writing Scotland - Alexander Trocchi
		Trocchi was born in Glasgow in 1925 to an Italian father and a Scottish mother.
		It was at this time that Trocchi began his experimentations in drug culture as part of the ‘turn-on, tune-in, drop-out’ generation and was briefly imprisoned in New York for his associations with illegal drug taking.
		During the sixties Trocchi published an essay for the New Saltire entitled ‘The Invisible Insurrection of a Million Minds’; its plea for the ‘linking of minds’ was to become the manifesto for Trocchi’s ‘Sigma project’, which gained support from writers, artists and intellectuals as various as Picasso, R. Laing, Salvador Dali and Timothy Leary.
	www.bbc.co.uk /scotland/arts/writingscotland/writers/alexander_trocchi (445 words)

	Alexander Trocchi, 1925-1984. British author
		Alexander Trocchi was a Scottish author who was better known as an eccentric than as an author.
		Trocchi began writing poetry and prose in the late 1940’s, and by the early 1950’s was an established member of the artistic avant-garde.
		Alexander Trocchi’s Papers at Washington University include manuscripts of his novels, stories, essays and poems, the extant archives of Merlin, most of his manuscripts and correspondence concerning the Sigma Project, material relating to a large number of projects Trocchi was involved with in the 1960’s, and his journals and notebooks.
	library.wustl.edu /units/spec/manuscripts/mlc/trocchi/trocchi1.html (613 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| Mean streets
		Alexander Trocchi was the smack-addled icon of beat literature, whose writings have been eclipsed by a lurid life of porn, pimping and dissolution in New York, Paris and London.
		Trocchi entered university in 1947 to study English and philosophy, and was soon living with his first wife Betty in a remote shepherd's cottage outside Glasgow, and making his first forays into fiction.
		Trocchi moved to a room in Montparnasse, sexually voracious and now an addict, "injecting himself in public," says Whitman, "pulling up his sleeves and making a big show of it." He withdrew from writing and production for an intangible revolution of mind, untethering his old life and leaving it far behind.
	books.guardian.co.uk /departments/generalfiction/story/0,6000,1014283,00.html (2812 words)

	Edinburgh Festivals - The Myth and the monster
		ALEXANDER Trocchi was a "miserable bastard" according to Ewan McGregor, who stars in the film adapted from the little-known first novel by Trocchi - Young Adam, which opens this year’s Edinburgh Film Festival.
		Trocchi’s books were frequently out of print, meaning few people outside the literary world had heard of him, much less read his work.
		Morgan says Trocchi already had a reputation as a wild man. "He was open about his growing drug use, but Merlin showed that when he sat down to write seriously, he had great talent.
	www.edinburgh-festivals.com /reviews.cfm?id=869452003&genre=film (1474 words)

	Alexander Trocchi -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Alexander Trocchi was a Scottish novelist, who was born in (Largest city in Scotland; a port in west central Scotland; one of the great shipbuilding centers of the world) Glasgow in 1925 as the son of an Italian father and died in London on April 15, 1984.
		He lived in Paris late (The decade from 1940 to 1949) 1940s to early (The decade from 1950 to 1959) 1950s and edited the literary journal "Merlin." Trocchi claimed that this journal came to an end when the US State Department cancelled its many subscriptions in protest over an article by Jean-Paul Sartre.
		It proposed an international "spontaneous university" as a cultural force and marked the beginning of his movement towards his sigma project, which played a formative part in the (Click link for more info and facts about UK Underground) UK Underground.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/al/alexander_trocchi.htm (468 words)

	BBC - Writing Scotland - Alexander Trocchi - Works
		Trocchi’s novel is not concerned with conventional plotting, however.
		The novel demonstrates Trocchi’s interest in the deceptive nature of language: ‘It is the word ‘I’ which is arbitrary and which contains within it its own inadequacy and its own contradiction’, Joe asserts.
		Trocchi’s later novel, Cain’s Book (1961) is heavily autobiographical, describing the mental processes and non-happenings of its heroin-addicted central protagonist, Joe Necchi, who is also writing a novel entitled ‘Cain’s Book’.
	www.bbc.co.uk /scotland/arts/writingscotland/writers/alexander_trocchi/works.shtml (682 words)

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		On that occasion, they unanimously expressed in public their solidarity with Alexander Trocchi, and their absolute certainty in the value of his comportment.
		Quite apart from any attitude on the use of drugs and its repression on the scale of society, we recall that it is notorious that a very great many doctors, psychologists and also artists have studied the effects of drugs without anyone thinking of imprisoning them.
		All the artists and intellectuals who knew Alexander Trocchi in Paris or London ought to bear witness without fail to his authentic artistic status, to enable the authorities in Great Britain to take the necessary steps in the USA in favour of a British subject.
	www.chez.com /debordiana/english/hands_off.htm (414 words)

	Alibris: Alexander Trocchi
		The only novel Trocchi ever completed, before his death in 1984, "Cain's Book" is an intense, inventive, harrowing account of heroin addiction by one of the most talented writers of his time.
		White Thighs by Frances Lengel (Trocchi) is the tale of Saul, a dominant European who travels to the New World, enjoys a series of games with his deliciously cruel house cook Kirstin, and finally, against the the advice of the family executor, seeks boldy for a beautiful and lost childhood nurse.
		Alexander Trocchi was the leading British beat writer of the 1950s and 60s.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Trocchi,Alexander (728 words)

	Mick FARREN and Alexander TROCCHI
		Trocchi was a Glaswegian writer, with something of a reputation as the Scottish outpost of the beat generation.
		Trocchi was a tall Scotsman who bore a passing resemblance to Laurence Oliver and had made a name for himself in Paris in the early Fifties when he edited the literary magazine Merlin.
		Trocchi was also a little sensitive about Sigma having been mauled and ridiculed, when he´d first revealed it, by fellow poets and artists like Jeff Nuttal, Spike Hawkins and Michael Horowitz, the ones I tended to think of as the CND Fifties old guard, lovers of jazz and loathers of rock´n roll.
	www.lnalhooq.net /LNALHOOQ/Livres/FarrenMickAlexanderTrocchi.html (997 words)

	Young Adam
		Trocchi is often described as a cult novelist, a junk scribe, the Irvine Welsh of the fifties who self-destructed in the eighties amid personal chaos and a clutter of abandoned projects, like Sigma, "the invisible insurrection of a million minds" and the Anti-University of London.
		High in the tiers we could only glimpse a beaky profile of MC Trocchi down there on the flower-strewn promenade, where a fey girl in a white dress undulated to the chime of Ginsberg's finger-cymbals.
		Trocchi was a dark presence, a mere continuity announcer or so we thought.
	www.culturecourt.com /Br.Paul/film/YoungAdam.htm (1555 words)

	Ritz Filmbill: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In Britain, the proto-Beat figure was probably Alexander Trocchi (1925-1984), a poet, novelist and cultural philosopher from Scotland who was at the center of many of the era’s most daring and influential movements.
		Trocchi also produced quite a bit of his own writing, though, if he’s less known for that, it’s largely due to his own troubled existence than any critical prejudice.
		Trocchi, in the most nonchalant of tones, presents a profoundly chilling portrait.
	www.ritzfilmbill.com /editorial/books/youngadam.html (916 words)

	Books: Taking a trip downstream - [Sunday Herald]
		Alexander Trocchi caused a sensation 40 years ago when he claimed to have written everything interesting in Scottish fiction in the previous two decades.
		As he had announced on stage, Trocchi was a user of drugs and by the time of his death in 1984, aged 59 (from pneumonia caught after an operation for lung cancer), he'd been an unrepentant heroin user for 30 years.
		Trocchi's debut, written in Paris, was a clear attempt to pull off an English language version of Camus's The Outsider.
	www.sundayherald.com /24290 (1127 words)

	White Thighs: Blast Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Following the Blast Books publication of THONGS, the second of a pair of extraordinary novels that established Alexander Trocchi as a highly imaginative writer of erotica is available again after more than two decades, with the approval of Trocchi's estate.
		The novel that first called attention to Alexander Trocchi as an unusually creative writer of erotica, WHITE THIGHS is the amorous tale of Saul, a young man with a remarkable predilection for power and pain and the determination to carry out the ideals sprung from his ever-potent imagination.
		Alexander Trocchi (1925-1984), author of the underground classic Cain's Book, Young Adam, THONGS, and other novels and short stories, was also a poet, translator, barge captain, and editor of the prestigious avant-garde literary review Merlin.
	www.blastbooks.com /WhiteThighs/WT.html (292 words)

	Ewan McGregor-articles
		Alexander Trocchi may have been a 'f**** horrible man', but Ewan McGregor still fought tooth and nail to get funding for an adaptation of the Glaswegian beatnik's novel 'Young Adam'.
		This is a lowish-budget adaptation of Alexander Trocchi's 1954 novel about a rootless young drifter, Joe (McGregor), working on a barge owned by curmudgeonly Leslie (Peter Mullan) and his strapping wife Ella (Tilda Swinton).
		As he explains, Trocchi's 'Young Adam' was published in two versions: the literary one acclaimed by Irvine Welsh as 'a breath of fresh air after all those sickly celebrations of Scottishness'; and the porno edition which Trocchi wrote for the Olympia Press to make money.
	www.eccentricity-online.com /timeoutlondon.html (1143 words)

	Glasgow Central
		Trocchi's (a.k.a "Necchi's") downtime is consumed with finding heroin in New York and recording his experiences in his journal.
		Thus Trocchi becomes not only a symptom of disintegration but also of the transition from a society of readers to a society of writers.
		Trocchi is said to have written Volume 5 of the notorious Frank Harris autobiography, My Life and Loves.
	www.culturecourt.com /e-books/Glasgow/Glasgow1.htm (1302 words)

	Situationist International Online
		He is the former director of the revue Merlin, and now he participates in experimental art research in collaboration with artists from several countries, who were regrouped on 28 September [1960] in London in the Institute of Contemporary Arts (17 Dover Street).
		Alexander Trocchi, whose case is due to be tried in October, is — in effect — accused of having experimented with drugs.
		This could be basely contested for the sole reason that he is a new type of artist; pioneer of a new culture and a new comportment (the question of drugs being in his own eyes minor and negligible).
	www.cddc.vt.edu /sionline/si/handsoff.html (418 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Young Adam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		I have since learned of Trocchi's own alienation from the Scottish literary canon and this explains his obsucrity but i would recommend anyone to read young Adam it stands the test of time and is engaging throughout.
		How he discovered Alexander Trocchi is beyond me. But I found his writing style, as well as his own outlook of the the world incredibly interesting.
		Trocchi has a way of taking incredibly mundane experiences and describing them using the most beautiful, flowing prose...I can't understand why more people aren't familiar with this author's work as he's easily in the same league as Bukowski and Burroughs...
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0862419050 (933 words)

	Young Adam:Trocchi, Alexander; Pringle, John:0862419050:eCampus.com
		His relationship with the dead woman gradually unfolds as claustrophobic tensions develop between him and the couple with whom he shares the cramped barge.
		Slowly but inexorably the reader is sucked into the disturbed psyche of Trocchi's rootless antihero.
		Originally published in 1954, this first novel by Scottish beat writer Alexander Trocchi is an absorbing existential thriller -- a lost gem of world literature that has nor been available in North America for over a decade.
	www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=0862419050 (100 words)

	Trocchi Alexander Trocchi. From Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Alexander Trocchi Was A Scottish Noveli
		Alexander Trocchi was born in Glasgow in 1925 philosopher, underground organiser and antique book dealer, Trocchi rubbed shoulders with many of the great names.
		Alexander Trocchi was the smack-addled icon of beat literature, whose writings have been eclipsed by the first signs of a Trocchi renaissance came in the early 1990s.
		Questo lavoro di Cecilia Gatto Trocchi, docente di Antropologia culturale presso l'Università nota famiglia fondamentalista), Cecilia Gatto Trocchi dichiara: "In nome della tecnica.
	www.99hosted.com /names16882.html (480 words)

	Calder Publications - Young Adam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Trocchi's narrator is an outsider; a drifter working for the skipper of a barge.
		Born and educated in Glasgow, Trocchi joined the Parisian literary scene of the early 1950s.
		From Paris - where Young Adam was originally published - he moved to the U.S, where he was one of the founders of the Beat community in Venice West, California.
	www.calderpublications.com /books/0714539252.html (236 words)

	'Young Adam' reviewed on the official website of Laura Hird
		There were moments in the film, 'Young Adam,' based on Alexander Trocchi’s 1954 novel of the same name, that reminded me of ‘The Postman Always Rings Twice’ —simmering sexual tension between the bored housewife and the new fellow that turns up, invariably resulting in the cuckolded husband scenario.
		There has recently been a resurgence of interest in Alexander Trocchi, who until now has been more of an obscure cult figure.
		I’ve been fascinated by Trocchi, considering him alongside contemporaries like Burroughs and Bukowski, and have to admire director MacKenzie and the cast of ‘Young Adam’ for taking on such a non-commercial project and remaining true to the spirit of the book.
	www.laurahird.com /filmreviews/youngadam.html (905 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Young Adam ("Rebel Inc." Classics S.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		If Trocchi hadn't been such a determined heroin user, mainstream publishing (at least outside Scotland) would have made his genius respectable - probably to his intense annoyance and possibly to his secret delight.
		Trocchi, as well as being a fine novelist, was also a drug addict and an accomplished writer of pornography.
		This novel is exceptional and a must for those who like the darker side, but be prepared you may not want to put it down.....
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0862419050 (694 words)

	Situationist International Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		THE DELEGATES to the fourth conference of the Situationist International, being informed of the arrest in the United States of their friend Alexander Trocchi, and of his charge of use of, and traffic in drugs, declare that the Situationist International retains full confidence in Alexander Trocchi.
		The conference DECLARES that Trocchi could not have, in any case, traffic in drugs; this is clearly a police provocation by which the situationists will not allow themselves to be intimidated;
		CALLS in particular upon the cultural authorities of Britain and on all British intellectuals who value liberty to demand the setting free of Alexander Trocchi, who is beyond all doubt England's most intelligent creative artist today.
	www.cddc.vt.edu /sionline/si/resolution.html (160 words)

	Ritz Filmbill: Movie Synopsis: Young Adam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The story is about degrees of innocence in a hypocritical moral climate, and I was drawn to the project because I saw a chance to explore a kind of moral gray area.
		“Trocchi is pointing a finger at a society which he portrays as a bitter, repressed lynch mob that feeds on a sham morality constructed by the press and eager to equate sex with crime.
		In 1962 Trocchi attended the Edinburgh International Writers’ Conference where the Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid famously denounced him as “cosmopolitan scum.'” And in 1965, he hosted the infamous Beat poetry “happening'” at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
	www.ritzfilmbill.com /editorial/synopses/youngadam.shtml (406 words)

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