A Moveable Void: Tom McCarthy on Alex Trocchi’s Cain’s Book
I remember reading Cain’s Book in my early twenties and being struck by an almost visceral awareness — the same kind of sensation you get when reading Joyce or Burroughs for the first time — that this was momentous, important stuff. The prose seemed to affirm at every turn the presence of someone who, besides knowing how to write, fundamentally understood and articulated what literature is: what it offers, what it withholds, what’s at stake in it.
Tom McCarthy on Alexander Trocchi’s Cain’s Book.