Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall by Lebold, Christophe

Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall

Leonard Cohen has aimed high: to be all Jewish heroes at once. Like Jacob, he struggled with...
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Author: Christophe Lebold
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Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall by Lebold, Christophe

Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall

$356.87

Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall

$356.87
Author: Christophe Lebold
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Leonard Cohen has aimed high: to be all Jewish heroes at once. Like Jacob, he struggled with angels. Like David, he sang psalms and seduced women. But he never ceased doing what he did best: going from city to city and reviving our hearts. Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall follows the singer's cosmopolitan life from Montreal and New York to the Greek island of Hydra and examines his perpetual dialogues with himself, God, and avalanches.

We see how six decades of radiant pessimism and a few thousand nights in hotel rooms transformed a young Jewish poet who longed to be a saint into an existentialist troubadour in love with women and a gravelly-voiced crooner who taught a thousand ways of dissolving into love.

After more than two decades of research and travels, Christophe Lebold, who befriended the poet and spent time with him in Los Angeles, delivers a stimulating analysis of Cohen's life and art. Gracefully blending biography and essay, he interrogates the mission Cohen set out for himself: to show us that darkness is just the flip side of light.



Author: Christophe Lebold
Publisher: ECW Press
Published: 09/05/2024
Pages: 576
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9781770417441


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 04/01/2024 pg. 98
Booklist 04/15/2024 pg. 5

About the Author

Christophe Lebold is associate professor at the University of Strasbourg (France), where he teaches literature, performance studies, and rock culture. A fan and friend of Leonard Cohen, he has traveled extensively in the poet's tracks. Also a theater actor and student of Zen, he likes poets, cats, and -- in a good mood -- all sentient beings.


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