Beautiful Losers.
by Cohen, Leonard
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- Signed
- first
- Condition
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About This Item
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1966. Beautiful Losers is an expression of the 1960's. Leonard Cohen wrote it while fasting and consuming amphetamines to focus his creativity. The product is a complex novel that uses a range of literary techniques, allusions, and symbolism (Adria, 1990). It is noted for its excesses of language and sexuality, and it is filled with the mysticism and drug-use that is emblematic of the era (Goldie, 2003). In a similar manner, the plot is not a linear, coherent progression. Key scenes repeat themselves, and there is no intelligible timeline. Beautiful Losers gained great popularity when Cohen turned from writer to popular singer-songwriter, and it is remembered for having introduced postmodernism to the Canadian literary canon.
Synopsis
Beautiful Losers is a novel by Leonard Cohen. Published in 1966 by McClelland and Stewart, it was the Canadian novelist-poet's second novel, and precedes his career as a singer-songwriter. It is noted as being perhaps Cohen's most defiant and uninhibited work, and is also one of the best-known experimental novels to be published during the 1960s.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Raptis Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 124873
- Title
- Beautiful Losers.
- Author
- Cohen, Leonard
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- McClelland and Stewart
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1966
- Keywords
- Beautiful Losers Signed First Edition, Leonard Cohen Autograph, Leonard Cohen First Edition
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