Despite a lavish rollout, sales were disappointing, and critics were initially unsympathetic or hostile. He fasted and consumed amphetamines to focus his creativity on the novel. It is filled with the mysticism, radicalism, sexuality, and drug-taking emblematic of the 1960s era, and is noted for its linguistic, technical, and sexual excesses.Ĭohen wrote the novel over two eight-month sessions while living on the Greek island of Hydra in 19. The complex novel makes use of a vast range of literary techniques, and a wealth of allusion, imagery, and symbolism. Set in the Canadian province of Quebec, the story of 17th-century Mohawk saint Catherine Tekakwitha is interwoven with a love triangle between an unnamed anglophone Canadian folklorist his Native wife, Edith, who has committed suicide and his best friend, the mystical F, a Member of Parliament and a leader in the Quebec separatist movement. It was published in 1966, before he began his career as a singer-songwriter. Viking Press – precedes Canadian edition)īeautiful Losers is the second and final novel by Canadian writer and musician Leonard Cohen.
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