The sensational sequel to the bestselling memoir The Basketball Diaries During the early 1970s, Jim Carroll was a young and rising star in the crazy and creative downtown scene in New York City. He worked at the Factory for Andy Warhol and discussed art, literature, and the cosmos with Robert Smithson, Allen Ginsberg, and Bob Dylan. He spent nights at Max’s Kansas City, listening to the Velvet Underground. And he did far too many drugs -- until his survival instinct impelled him to leave New York for a Northern California retreat. Intimate and revealing, the episodes in Forced Entries, Carroll’s diaries from that period, provide a sometimes hilarious, sometimes frightening glimpse of people who tested the limits of life and sanity. "Forced Entries captures the early-seventies period in New York better than anything I’ve read in a long time." -- William S. Burroughs

ジム・キャロルが綴る狂騒の記録は、単なる退廃の物語ではありません。本書の真髄は、ウォーホルら伝説的アイコンと交差しつつ、魂の崩壊と再生を詩的に掬い取る「自己救済の文学」としての鋭さにあります。都会の闇を彷徨う詩人の感性が、死の淵から生へと向かう力強い鼓動を鮮烈に伝えます。 映像版が肉体的な苦痛を動的に描いたのに対し、原作は文字ならではの「思考の深淵」を湛えています。映像の衝撃を越え、内面に染み入る静謐な祈りのような言葉は、テキストでしか味わえない贅沢な特権です。両者を往復することで、一人の天才が駆け抜けた時代の熱量を多層的に享受できる、至高の体験となるでしょう。