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Jun 18, 2021 · 1 online resource (255 pages) One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, Beautiful Losers By turns vulgar, rhapsodic, and viciously witty, Beautiful Losers From the Trade Paperback edition. Print version record. Access-restricted-item. true.
BEAUTIFUL LOSERS has been called everything from obscene. and revolting to gorgeous and brave. For a Canadian work it has received con siderable international attention, yet few literary critics have dared take it seriously.
- Linda Hutcheon
- 1974
I analyse Leonard Cohen's iconoclastic novel Beautiful Losers from the Bakhtinian angle of the carnivalesque.
Beautiful Losers is the second and final novel by Canadian writer and musician Leonard Cohen. It was published in 1966, before he began his career as a singer-songwriter.
First published in 1966, Beautiful Losers demonstrates that its author is not only a superb songwriter but also a novelist of visionary power. Funny, harrowing, and fiercely moving, it is a classic erotic tragedy, incandescent in its prose and exhilarating for its risky union of sexuality and faith.
- Leonard Cohen
- Paperback
Jan 26, 2011 · One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, Beautiful Losers is Leonard Cohen’ s most defiant and uninhibited work. As imagined by Cohen, hell is an apartment in Montreal, where a...
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Aug 6, 2009 · Revolving around four central – and intrinsically flawed – characters, 'Beautiful Losers' is the frank and humorous story of a nameless narrator, his wife Edith, their domineering friend and mentor 'F' and Catherine Tekakwitha, a mythic 17th-century Mohawk virgin saint.
