by Leonard Cohen · EDICIONES B: VIB · Tapa dura · ISBN 9788440683045
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«Los hermosos vencidos» is the novel by Canadian author Leonard Cohen, published by Ediciones B in 1998 (398 pages, in Spanish).
An old solitary scholar dialogues in his Montreal apartment with the shadows of his wife and his best friend, after a relationship marked by love and betrayal. The novel interweaves sex, death, sarcasm and mysticism around the incorrupt body of an Iroquois virgin, with experimental prose that challenges conventions.
Work originally published in 1966 under the title «Beautiful Losers»; this Spanish-language edition appeared in 1998.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in narrative experimentation and themes of sex, death and spirituality.
Leonard Norman Cohen was a Canadian songwriter, singer, poet, and novelist. Themes commonly explored throughout his work include faith and mortality, isolation and depression, betrayal and redemption, social and political conflict, sexual and romantic love, desire, regret, and loss. He was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He was invested as a Companion of the Order of Canada, the nation's highest civilian honour. In 2011, he received one of the Prince of Asturias Awards for literature and the ninth Glenn Gould Prize. In 2023, Rolling Stone named Cohen the 103rd-greatest singer of all time.
