Volume 6, Number 7 · April 28, 1966
Making It New
By John Wain
Beautiful Losers
by Leonard Cohen
Viking, 256 pp., $5.75
Hopscotch
by Julio Cortázar, translated by Gregory Rabassa
Pantheon, 564 pp., $6.95
The Soft Machine
by William S. Burroughs
Grove, 182 pp., $5.00
Mr. Cohen, Señor Cortázar, and Mr. Burroughs all write about loneliness, and all employ an idiom which, though they use it with individual voices, could be said to be common to them. Here are three quotations which should be more illuminating than columns of discussion:
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