Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen

Beautiful Losers

Leonard Cohen

missing duration info Add in missing duration information first pub 1966 (editions)

fiction literary reflective slow-paced

Description

One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, Beautiful Losers is Cohen's most defiant and uninhibited work.As imagined by Cohen, hell is an apartment in Montreal, where a bereaved and lust-tormented narrator reconstructs his relations w...

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Moods

challenging 85%
dark 71%
reflective 71%
emotional 57%
tense 57%
mysterious 42%
sad 42%
adventurous 14%
funny 14%
inspiring 14%

Pace

slow 57%
medium 42%

Plot- or character-driven?

Character: 50% | A mix: 33% | N/A: 16%

Strong character development?

It's complicated: 83% | Yes: 16%

Loveable characters?

It's complicated: 50% | No: 50%

Diverse cast of characters?

Yes: 40% | It's complicated: 20% | N/A: 20% | No: 20%

Flaws of characters a main focus?

Yes: 80% | It's complicated: 20%

Average rating

3.41

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