Cain's Book by Alexander Trocchi
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Overview: This is the journal of Joe Necchi, a junkie living on a barge that plies the rivers and bays of New York. Joe’s world is the half-world of drugs and addicts—the world of furtive fixes in sordid Harlem apartments, of police pursuits down deserted subway stations. Junk for Necchi, however, is a tool, freely chosen and fully justified; he is Cain, the malcontent, the profligate, the rebel who lives by no one’s rules but his own. Like DeQuincey and Baudelaire before him, Trocchi’s muse was drugs. But unlike his literary predecessors, in his roman a clef, Trocchi never romanticizes the source of his inspiration. If the experience of heroin, of the “fix,” is central to Cain’s Book, both its destructive force and the possibilities for creativity it creates are recognized and accepted without apology.
"Can't write about writing so will simply say that I find it excellent, very strong and moving--all the visual writing in particular--it seems to me of the highest order."--Samuel Beckett
"Alexander Trocchi was a major figure in cosmopolitan new-consciousness fifties' and sixties' literature, and Cain's Book is his signal novel."--Allen Ginsberg
"Cain's Book is the classic of the late-1950s account of heroin addiction.... An un-self-forgiving existentialism, rendered with writerly exactness and muscularity, set this novel apart from all others of the genre."--William S. Burroughs
Genre: Fiction; Postmodern Fiction; Novel; Beat Generation (Culture)
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Requirements: ePUB Readers, 483 KB | Version: Retail
Overview: This is the journal of Joe Necchi, a junkie living on a barge that plies the rivers and bays of New York. Joe’s world is the half-world of drugs and addicts—the world of furtive fixes in sordid Harlem apartments, of police pursuits down deserted subway stations. Junk for Necchi, however, is a tool, freely chosen and fully justified; he is Cain, the malcontent, the profligate, the rebel who lives by no one’s rules but his own. Like DeQuincey and Baudelaire before him, Trocchi’s muse was drugs. But unlike his literary predecessors, in his roman a clef, Trocchi never romanticizes the source of his inspiration. If the experience of heroin, of the “fix,” is central to Cain’s Book, both its destructive force and the possibilities for creativity it creates are recognized and accepted without apology.
"Can't write about writing so will simply say that I find it excellent, very strong and moving--all the visual writing in particular--it seems to me of the highest order."--Samuel Beckett
"Alexander Trocchi was a major figure in cosmopolitan new-consciousness fifties' and sixties' literature, and Cain's Book is his signal novel."--Allen Ginsberg
"Cain's Book is the classic of the late-1950s account of heroin addiction.... An un-self-forgiving existentialism, rendered with writerly exactness and muscularity, set this novel apart from all others of the genre."--William S. Burroughs
Genre: Fiction; Postmodern Fiction; Novel; Beat Generation (Culture)
Download Instructions:
https://www.mediafire.com/?dj1y0tg357zj56w