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 eOne 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.
Beautiful Losers By Leonard Cohen 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 eOne 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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