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Alexander Whitelaw Robertson Trocchi ( / ˈtrɒki / TROK-ee; 30 July 1925 – 15 April 1984) was a Scottish novelist . Early life and career.
Alexander Trocchi has 49 books on Goodreads with 8851 ratings. Alexander Trocchi’s most popular book is Young Adam.
Alexander Trocchi was a Scottish novelist. He lived in Paris in the early 1950s and edited the literary magazine Merlin, which published Henry Miller, Samuel Beckett, Christopher Logue and Pablo Neruda, among others.
The biography of Alexander Trocchi suggests a life of many parts: writer, artist, husband, father, activist, heroin-addict, revolutionary.
Alexander Trocchi was born in Glasgow in 1925 to an Italian father and Scottish mother. He had a short spell in the navy before studying philosophy at the University of Glasgow. He moved to Paris in the mid-40s where he started writing first as editor of a magazine called Merlin as well as other magazines, and then erotic fiction for the ...
Jun 12, 2024 · Biography. Alexander Trocchi was a Scottish author, publisher and activist. He attended the University of Glasgow from 1942-1943 and from 1946-1950, and served in the Royal Navy from 1943-1946.
Jan 19, 2012 · Alexander Trocchi was a “junkie, visionary, pimp, beat, literary outlaw, pornographer, philosopher, pig farmer, underground organiser and antique book dealer” — but he was also a writer.
Jun 8, 2019 · Old favourites: Alexander Trocchi’s pages drift past, monotonous and stark and radiant. Alexander Trocchi took life and himself seriously enough to wreck both, with literature understood...
This new edition of the critically-acclaimed biography of Alexander Trocchi has been revised, extended and updated since its first publication in 1991 when it helped to create new interest in...
Biography. Alexander Trocchi was born on the 30th July 1925 in Glasgow to a Scottish mother and Italian father. On graduating from the University of Glasgow in the early 1950s, he obtained a travelling grant that allowed him to relocate to continental Europe.
