HELEN

OXY publications and the Porpi series present Helen & Desire, by the Arts Council Writers' Award-winning Scottish author Alexander Trocchi, who with his life and work stirred the stagnant waters of the British intellect. The young and beautiful Helen suffocates in the provincial microcosm that surrounds her and with love as a compass she leaves to know danger, adventure, the world, her very self. A provocative book, by a provocative author in every way, which will make a sensation. Trocchi participated in the famous Internationale des Lettres and was a founder of the pioneering review Merlin with collaborators such as Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet, Eugene Ionesco and Jean Paul Sartre. In his tumultuous career he experimented with Barroughs and Kerouac in Los Angeles and later devised the Sigma Project, a kind of early artistic and philosophical network for the purpose of invisible rebellion so that the masses would find themselves in a different state than the one imposed on them by the dominant system.