NP - Leonard Cohen's Beautiful Losers

[Keith McMullen]

Raymond Carver is a “simpler” version of that.

Much simpler.

I love all of it...Cohen, Pynchon, Carver......

> On Oct 10, 2020, at 2:38 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I read about 1/4 of it today.  It is very consciously a work of art, but it
> is relentlessly a downer.  The narrator is very sophisticated, but very
> depressed.  It seems to be an extended study in guilt re. oppression of
> native Canadians, told in oblique personal stories with many sexual
> obsessions.  I can see why it wasn't well received.  I don't deny the art,
> but it can become oppressive.
> 
> David Morris
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