Resumo de The Favourite Game

Leonard Cohen, known by many as the songwriter and the poet, made his novel debut in the mid-sixties with The Favourite Game. The book remains to receive less of the attention it duly deserves. The truly amusing, loveable, ?real? story of Lawrence Breavman as he grew up in the Westmount area of Montreal, his moving to New York and meeting Shell, the girl with pierced ears in order that she could wear filigree earrings. In what captivates as a poetic, cinematically vivid depiction of youthful perceptions, he narrates his early reminiscences of the family surrounding, impositions of being a Jew there and then, fragmented retrospections on his sick father and his subsequent death, the thereafter-difficult relation with her mother, his getting to know women, and his passion for them and fascination of their beauty with its all possible inspirations. Interpretation of love, and in that context, of the life itself, remains central to the development of his understanding. For what he thinks or does he suggests no righteousness, as his rendering of grounds come only as revelations of his own inner motives and thread of thoughts. He and his closest buddy, Krantz, are wittily observing, practising and commenting on the basic facts, dullness, realities and possible entertainments of St.Lawrence, or, for that matter, of anywhere which could be only that much engaging. Breavman becomes known as a writer, which he takes with not so much more than amusement socially. The neighbourhood of Westmount appears as a setting which propels his questions, in due course proving to be insufficient for his imagination. And the drive to leave emerges. He moves to New York, and there he meets Shell, the woman by whom he feels the whole sense of being twosome. But against his admiration for her stands his self-reality. Breavman?s self-contemplation in regard to the people and events of this particular phase in his life closes the book as an anti-heroic epilogue.
It is a compelling reading that thrills you with its emotional accuracy and honesty. Leonard Cohen?s mastery of explicit conveying of fine human sensations makes The Favourite Game an ode to the beauty of lust for love and life.

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