Leonard Cohen
Paperback | Pages: 243 pages Rating: 3.62 | 5698 Users | 436 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Beautiful Losers |
| ISBN: | 0679748253 (ISBN13: 9780679748250) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, Beautiful Losers is Cohen’ s most defiant and uninhibited work. The novel centres upon the hapless members of a love triangle united by their sexual obsessions and by their fascination with Catherine Tekakwitha, the 17th-century Mohawk saint.By turns vulgar, rhapsodic, and viciously witty, Beautiful Losers explores each character’s attainment of a state of self-abandonment, in which the sensualist cannot be distinguished from the saint.
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| Title | : | Beautiful Losers |
| Author | : | Leonard Cohen |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 243 pages |
| Published | : | November 2nd 1993 by Vintage (first published 1966) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. Canada. Poetry. Literature. Novels |
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i finished reading this book two days ago, but i have no exact words to explain what i felt after i finished reading it. i could've finished the novel in three or four days but i wanted to stay with cohen's poetic words of lovelessness, loneliness, sadness, and unhappiness for a long time-period. so, i took six days to finish it. i still don't have the words to describe my feelings. i am the emperor of the state of poor vocabulary. but, i can say that after i finished reading the book, i kissedI didn't get this novel. For most of the time I spent reading it the meaning of the text evaded me. Cohen is doing a lot of things here, and they are very interesting and postmodernsacred and profane chafing against one anotherbut I didn't always feel secure in this reading. I think this is productive, not negative. I felt extremely unsettled throughout, at times repulsed and horrified, but was very interested in what Cohen was saying about Canada and its history. I think this book requires a
When I heard of Leonard Cohen's death I thought it would be the perfect moment to finally tackle Beautiful Losers. As it is written on the first page dedication, I received the book as a birthday gift in 2005. It has been sitting on my bookshelf for more than 10 years, waiting for me to give it a chance. A chance was given but I could not make it past page 50. This is the craziest shit I have ever read. Violent, sexual, nonsensical gibberish... and the obsession for Catherine Tekakwitha, the
"I don't need a reasonFor what I becameI've got these excusesThey're tired and lameI don't need a pardon, no, no, no, no, noThere's no one left to blameI'm leaving the tableI'm out of the gameI'm leaving the tableI'm out of the game"Leonard Cohen's last song. Died 7 Nov 2016 in the same year Bowie and Prince died.
Decadently filthy, obtuse and unrelenting, Beautiful Losers is characteristically unlike the Leonard Cohen of the early 1960s. Rather than the rhythmic, dulcet poetry and lyrics, the novel is of dense prose that more resembles the beat poetry of Kesey or Ginsberg, encapsulating the loose spirit and free living of the era in which it was written, having been first published in 1966.Beautiful Losers captures two distinct historical periods and myriad tensions that threaten to tear them apart. In
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!Cunts are a forest of pricks where saints and seekers exchange dirty luminescent fluids in microscopes of madhouses stitched together, and shattered, and stitched together again by tidal sways in the eternal machinery of the ever-loving Mothers.Inspired farrago? Result of not wearing a hat in the hot Mediterranean sun? Masturbation fantasy of beatitude? Hippy dipshit revolutionary nonsense failing to revolutionize? Jews for Jesus dream of Heaven?Jesus, Mary, and Joseph
worst day ever. thanks for all the everything, l.c.i have tried to review this book on four separate occasions. for some reason, this is one of the most diffcult books for me to defend to others and to justify to myself.on the one hand, it's leonard cohen. enough said.on the other hand, i can be objective when it comes to him. dear heather is a crap album. there, i said it. i'm sorry, but the world did not need a 9/11 song from him, it is terrible terrible terrible.on the other hand, it's
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