Cain’s Book (1960) by Alexander Trocchi is a text about heroin addiction, but its underlying concern is with the representation of liminal experience and alterity. The textual space of Cain’s Book is constructed through the formal aspects of structure, narrative voice and spatial imagery. This space is represented in the text by the central image of a small boat on a dark sea, which is the setting for much of the narrative. It encapsulates the alienation of the narrator, the tidal swings of his drug use, and of his writing. In this article I argue that this vessel, which is both actual and figurative setting, carries the work on a metaphorical voyage to the limits of representation and the encounter with subjective alterity. Furthermore, the writing of immersive addiction, in this instance at least, is not a trajectory of disintegration, nor of escapism, but rather a journey of limit state experience and the possibilities for its literary representation.

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一个人能走多远：亚历克斯·特罗基的该隐书中的海洛因、另类和文字

亚历山大·特罗基 (Alexander Trocchi) 所著的该隐之书 (1960) 是一篇关于海洛因成瘾的文本，但其潜在的关注点在于阈限经验和他异性的表现。该隐之书的文本空间是通过结构、叙事声音和空间意象的形式方面构建的。这个空间在文本中由黑暗海上的一艘小船的中心图像表示，这是大部分叙事的背景。它概括了叙述者的异化、他吸毒的潮汐变化以及他的写作。在这篇文章中，我认为这艘既是现实又是具象背景的船只承载着作品的隐喻航行，以达到再现的极限和与主观他异性的相遇。此外，沉浸式成瘾的写作，至少在这种情况下，不是瓦解的轨迹，