Porn (novel)

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Porno (2002) is a novel by Irvine Welsh and a sequel to Trainspotting . The German edition was translated by Clara Drechsler and Harald Hellmann and was published in 2004 by the Cologne publishing house Kiepenheuer & Witsch .

action

The central characters from Trainspotting reappear in porn . After a decade their paths cross again in Leith , this time in connection with the pornography business rather than heroin use . They are brought together by some characters from the novel Glue , also written by Irvine Welsh.

Sick Boy leads an unhappy life and decides to leave London and return to Leith. There he buys a small pub from his aunt. Over time, he notices that Leith has become a favorite place to live for philistines . He banishes the local rabble from his pub and wants to make it more interesting for the upper class of Leith. After meeting the amateur porn film maker Juice Terry (known from Glue ), he decides to make a porn film too.

After hearing that his old friend Renton, who cheated on him out of his money in London ten years ago, was spotted in Amsterdam , he visits him there and is able to convince him to return to Leith to help him with his project . Sick-Boy tries to cross the paths of Renton and Begbie, who has since been released from prison (he was serving a three-year prison sentence for manslaughter), in order to get revenge on Renton. At the same time, with Renton as a business partner, he wants to use Swiss accounts for his porn production.

Spud, who has a child with Allison, who has become completely sensible, is still a drug addict and now sees his addiction as an obstacle, but still can't get rid of it properly. He also tests his relationship with Allison, who finds a job in the Sick Boys Pub, with drugs and attempts to break up several times.

Mark Renton's former girlfriend Dianne is now moving in with Nikki, who works in a "sauna club" and is the leading actress in Sick Boys porn. Another roommate is Lauren, with whom Nikki studies and leads many feminist arguments, mostly about the contempt for women in pornographic films.

Irvine Welsh does not complete the plot one more time and allows another sequel.

subjects

In porn , too , Irvine Welsh talks about his usual subjects, violence, drugs, class society. At the same time, however, the author focuses heavily on interpersonal relationships. From pure sex to serious relationships and true friendships, he sets out everything.

In contrast to its predecessor Trainspotting, Porno has a continuous storyline. In addition, the same situation is more often told from multiple perspectives.

Narrative characters

  • Simon David "Sick Boy" Williamson
  • Mark "Rents" Renton
  • Nicola "Nikki" Fuller-Smith
  • Daniel "Spud" Murphy
  • Francis "Franco" Begbie

filming

The novel served partly as a template for the script for the feature film T2 Trainspotting (2017).

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