Leonard Cohen - Beautiful Losers

Leonard Cohen - Beautiful Losers
Jonathan Cape, 1972
242 str.
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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 bereaved and lust-tormented narrator reconstructs his relations with the dead. In that hell two men and a woman twine impossibly and betray one another again and again. Memory blurs into blasphemous sexual fantasy--and redemption takes the form of an Iroquois saint and virgin who has been dead for 300 years but still has the power to save even the most degraded of her suitors.

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.

`An exciting book... wildly funny. The themes are cleverly bound up, tied with sensitivity, lyric poetry and bitter self-mockery.` Sunday Times
`Extraordinary book... a wild psalm to all the beautiful losers of sexual, racial and political exploitation.` Listener
`He is a writer of terrific energy and colour, a Rabelaisian comic and a visualiser of some memorable scenes.` Observer
This is the first publication in Britain of Leonard Cohen`s legendary Beautiful Losers, the novel that has shocked, elated puzzled and provoked an international readership since it first appeared in America.


Fiction, Classics, 0224618334, Lepi zgubljenci

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