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The Holy Man and Other Stories by Alexander Trocchi
Works by a neglected Scottish avant-garde writer reveal an acute eye for detail and formidable intelligence
MATTHEW HAWKINS rakes through un-fancy words and flair-free summaries to find who and what might be flamboyant
PETER MASON is exhilarated by an exciting, well-considered and historically minded tribute to the great Trinidadian instrument
Reducing historical lives to ‘male’ and ‘female’ roles, we lose the nuance of those lives and a clearer understanding of past societies, suggests CLAIRE ISABELLA GILMOUR
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“I THINK frankly that of what is interesting in the last, say 20 years in Scottish writing, I have written it all,” Alexander Trocchi remarked in 1962 in a now notorious spat with Hugh MacDiarmid at the Edinburgh Writers Conference.
Posterity has largely thought otherwise, Trocchi remaining a marginal cult figure in the history of 20th-century letters and barely warranting a mention in surveys of Scottish literature.
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