 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Trocchi akaberekerwa muGlasgow kuna amai vokuScotland nababa vokuItaly. Pashure pokushanda somufambisi wengarava mumigwagwa yokuMurmansk, akaenda kuYunivhesiti yeGlasgow. Paakapedza kudzidza akawana mari yokufamba iyo yakamubvumira kutamira kuEurope. Mukutanga kwema1950 aigara muParis uye akagadzirisa magazini yemabhuku Merlin, iyo yakabudisa Henry Miller, Samuel Beckett, Christopher Logue, naPablo Neruda, pakati pevamwe. Kunyange zvazvo asina kubudiswa mu Merlin, munyori weAmerica Terry Southern, uyo aigara muParis kubva muna 1948 kusvika muna 1952, akava shamwari yepedyo yaTrocchi uye waaishanda naye Richard Seaver, uye vatatu vacho vakazogadzira bhuku rinonzi Writers In Revolt 1962. Kunyange zvazvo Merlin yakanga yave yakasimbiswa zvishoma mukukwikwidzana neParis Review, George Plimpton akanga ashandawo pabhodhi rokunyora remagazini yacho. Trocchi akataura kuti magazini iyi yakaguma apo Dhipatimendi reHurumende reU.S. rakadzima kunyoreswa kwayo kwakawanda mukupokana nechinyorwa chaJean-Paul Sartre chinorumbidza homoeroticism yaJean Genet. 