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Alexander Whitelaw Robertson Trocchi (30 July 1925 – 15 April 1984) was a Scottish novelist. ==Early career== Trocchi was born in Glasgow to a Scottish mother and Italian father. After working as a seaman on the Murmansk convoys, he attended the University of Glasgow. On graduation he obtained a travelling grant that enabled him to relocate to continental Europe. In the early 1950s he lived in Paris and edited the literary magazine ''Merlin'', which published Henry Miller, Samuel Beckett, Christopher Logue, and Pablo Neruda, amongst others. Although not published in ''Merlin'', American writer Terry Southern, who lived in Paris from 1948−1952, became a close friend of both Trocchi and his colleague Richard Seaver, and the three later co-edited the anthology ''Writers In Revolt'' (1962).〔Hill, Lee. ''A Grand Guy: The Life and Art of Terry Southern'' (Bloomsbury, 2001), pp. 46-48, p. 102〕 Though established somewhat in rivalry with the ''Paris Review'', George Plimpton also had served on ''Merlin's'' editorial board. 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 homoeroticism of Jean Genet. Maurice Girodias published most of Trocchi's novels through Olympia Press,〔(''Exiled in Paris Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Samuel Beckett and Others on the Left Bank'' ), pp. 146-147〕 often written under pen names, such as Frances Lengel and Carmencita de las Lunas. Girodias also published ''My Life and Loves: Fifth Volume'', which purported to be the final volume of the autobiography of Irish writer Frank Harris. However, though based on autobiographical material by Harris, the book was heavily edited and rewritten by Trocchi.〔Harris, Frank. Alexander Trocchi, editor. ''My Life and Loves: Fifth Volume'', (1954)〕 Maurice Girodias commissioned him to write erotica. Under the name Frances Lengel, Trocchi churned out numerous pornographic books including the now classic ''Helen and Desire'' (1954) and a dirty version of his own book ''Young Adam'' (1954). Trocchi and his friends also published Samuel Beckett’s ''War and Memory'' and Jean Genet’s ''Thief’s journal'' in English for the first time.〔Cult Fiction a readers guide, Andrew Calcutt, Richard Shephard published 1998 page 275〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alexander Trocchi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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