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Irvine
Welsh (Sep 27, 1958)
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Irvine
Welsh’s Trainspotting
Irvine Welsh's
controversial first novel, set on the heroin-addicted fringe of working-class
youth in Edinburgh, is yet another exploration of the dark side of
Scottishness. The main character, Mark Renton, is at the center of a clique of
nihilistic slacker junkies with no hopes and no possibilities, and only
"mind-numbing and spirit-crushing" alternatives in the straight world
they despise. This particular slice of humanity has nothing left but the
blackest of humor and a sharpness of wit. Readers outside Scotland would need
to use the glossary in the back to translate the slang and dialect--essential,
since the dialogue makes the book. This is a bleak vision sung as musical comedy.
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