The Favourite Game, Cohen, Leonard

Sun, 04 Jun 2023 02:12:01 +0000

Leonard Cohen boldly traces the youth and early manhood of Lawrence Breavman, only son of a Jewish Montreal family. For Breavman, ife is a quest for beauty and truth, a kaleidoscope of colours and sensations fed through the high-speed projector of youth: the half-understood death of his father; the adult games of love and war, fantasy and pain; his secret experiments with hypnotism; the absorbing wanders through Montreal in half-light with beloved confidant Krantz. After achieving literary fame as a college student, Breavman flees to New York. And, although he has loved the bodies of many women, it is only in the arms of Shell that he discovers the potent totality of love and its demands. Only then is he able to grasp the sacrifices he must make.

Beautiful Losers, Cohen, Leonard

Sat, 31 Dec 2022 10:07:31 +0000

Издание полностью на английском языке.One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, this uninhibited tale centres on the hapless members of a love triangle, and their sexual obsession and shared fascination with a mythic saint. 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. The complexities of this three-way love, pain and lust are sent spiralling by the death of Edith and ‘F’ at the novel’s start, leading the damaged narrator to question the nature of love, sexuality and spirituality in a series of explicit flashbacks. The extraordinary and inimitable singer-songwriter’s classic novel, this is Leonard Cohen’s most critically acclaimed literary work, echoing the dark poetry and wry humour of his timeless songs of loss, love, sex and religion. Not just an extremely funny novel, but an incredibly original and explicit examination of friendship, sex and spirituality.

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The Favourite Game, Cohen, Leonard

Beautiful Losers, Cohen, Leonard