Regarding obscenity

Fifty years after English language authorities began persecuting his work, a Turkish publisher is being prosecuted for translating and publishing William S Burroughs, Soft Machine ("Yumusak Makine"). The ultimate rationale: "the book lacks narrative unity, while it is written in an arbitrary fashion that is devoid of cohesion in meaning". In which case how can it be obscene? Proof, amongst other things, what upsets the reactionary mind most is obscurity, something new that it cannot grasp.