ECSTACY

With Trainspotting, his first novel, Irvine Welsh established himself in Great Britain as the foremost representative of the new generation of British writers, a generation that owes as much to the writing of William Burroughs and the Beat as it does to the rage of Johnny Rotten and punk .

And while in Trainspotting the chemical mosaics of the life of a generation that flirted with emptiness were the center, the "whole" of existence, in Ecstasy this same generation of techno and jungle tries to escape from the claustrophobic web of drugs and spread hand to a world waiting for her to live in. Now, the ingredients of the chemical cocktail act as a catalyst for the exploration of human desire. They trigger the reactions and pass quietly into the background, like elements randomly added to a chemical compound, leaving us, the viewers, to watch the effects of that compound. Now, E corresponds to Eros.

"Welsh is the leading poet of the chemical generation."
The Face

"The most gifted of Great Britain's young writers."
The Guardian

"The most important modern writer. When he appeared out of nowhere in 1993, he became the first writer to successfully rise to the challenge of expressing chemical generation. The authenticity of his writing leaves no room for doubt."
id

"The best thing to happen to British literature in decades."
Sunday Times