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TRAINSPOTTING

The book on which the film of the same name by Danny Boyle was based

A book written with the relentless precision of William Burroughs' Junkie, with the anguished probing of Alexander Trocchi's Cain's Book, with the desperate humor of a classic noir, with the expressive dynamism of Lowry and Nabokov.
The mosaics and fragments of the daily life of a group of young people in their ceaseless movement from the frozen fringes to the combustible center of modern cities. Cruelty, immersion in drugs, unemployment, paranoia, a sense of failure, the corpses of all auspicious prospects, outbursts of unpredictable violence but also of a captured lyricism, compose the dark music of this book, a music as aggressive as the Punk, complex and improvisational like Jazz, powerfully melancholic like Blues.

Irvine Welsh explores the hell of a world that has lost its center, rhythm and coherence, traversing the jungle of concrete, steel and tattered social fabric, and shattering us with the material of his exploration.

THE ART OF THE BLADE

Jim Francis' return from California to Edinburgh for the funeral of his son – a son he barely knew – seems at first like an unpleasant event he cannot avoid. But things take a different dimension when he meets again after six years his family and old acquaintances of the underworld. The past awakens dark memories and another face slowly emerges, that of Frank Begbie, the ruthless killer, the ruthless criminal. A face that bears no resemblance to the quiet and loving family man of California

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