Beautiful Loser
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About This Novel
"Beautiful Loser" came out in the mid-1960s and is known as Canada's first postmodern novel. It is the most provocative and unruly work of Cohen, who is a poet, writer, singer, painter, and monk. He is known as the "Byron of rock and roll." The novel is set in Montreal in the 1960s and outlines a love triangle: an unknown scholar dedicated to the study of Indian tribes, his wife Edith, the last descendant of a certain Indian tribe, and the scholar's homosexual lover F. The three are entwined in a tangled relationship linked by sexual compulsion and the legend of a seventeenth-century Indian saint named Katherine Tinkawiser. The novel sometimes talks in sleep and sometimes howls, expressing people's desire for order and the terror of spiritual loneliness. The work is weird and exaggerated, but also full of fun; the spirit of the 1960s embodied, such as free and novel sex, exploratory experiments such as revolution, are all the characters in the book experience, a kind of super hippie, which is regarded as a treasure by a generation of readers looking for spiritual leaders. This work breaks through the traditional form of the novel and provides the rather conservative literary world in Canada with the possibility of bohemianism. It is one of the most important novels in the Canadian literary world.
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