Early on in this game the Beautiful Losers play it is said ''There is nothing so depressing as the eccentricity of a contemporary.'' Many may feel that way during this via dolorosa of psychosexual decadence. is holy, dirty and beautiful'' and the novel seems to fuse sexuality and spirituality and thereby achieves some sort of transubstantiation. It opens with an invocation to Catherine Tekakwitha, (1656-1680), an Iroquois Virgin, but before long one realizes that Cohen is using her short and ultimately sainted life for the superimposition of the image of Edith. Superficially, the book deals with the relationships of the narrator, his best friend F., and his wife, Edith, whom they shared. ISBN : 9781921520402 Publisher : Text Publishing Company Imprint : Text Publishing Company Publication date : December 2008 Product Type : books. Genres Politics Political Science Nonfiction History American 256 pages, Paperback First published AugBook details & editions About the author Samuel T.

Interpreting it- well it's an invitation to play Russian roulette with a phallic pistol. In Beautiful Losers, Samuel Francis argues that the victory of the Democratic party marks not only the end of the Reagan-Bush era, but the failure of the American conservatism. His work complements the efforts of an earlier generation of American conservatives who focused on defining and celebrating the social and cultural substratum on which our freedom rests. At times he seems closer to Genet than anyone writing today- perhaps not in its intent as much as in its anal, erotic, and homoerotic particulars. 'In Beautiful Losers Samuel Francis stakes his claim as one of the most important conservative thinkers of our time. He is a poet and he wrote the earlier, rather formless The Favorite Game: this second novel is deliberately inchoate with all kinds of subliminal freeform associations and technical experiments (unpunctuated pages, etc.). One may justifiably be at a dead loss to define or defend Leonard Cohen's Beautiful Losers it is both mystical and profane, poetic and obscene.

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