Part 1 is told by the unnamed male protagonist, a scholar researching a Canadian Aboriginal tribe, the A-s. You get this: “Come on a new journey with me, a journey only strangers can take, and we can remember it when we are ourselves again, and therefore never be merely ourselves again.”īut you also get five consecutive pages of this: “…lap lap oh pearl pink precious radio crystal marvelous fruit pit of whole bumcunt harvest appear form develop unfold unshell unskin look into cocklove lead dykeplug prickgirl nrrr grrr….”Īnd you get a 30-page lube-soaked attempt to restore the protagonist’s wife’s ability to have an orgasm, a few chapters in which the first letter of every word is capitalized for no apparent reason, and an entire chapter of gibberish.īeautiful Losers is presented in three parts. It is also mesmerizing, though, because of its swoon-worthy writing and enthusiasm for filth. Leonard Cohen’s second and final novel, Beautiful Losers, published in 1966, is experimental and difficult. In an attempt to make himself a better Canadian, Craig MacBride is reading and reviewing the books that have shaped this country.
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