I think that when you're separated from the mother of your children; when you have said publicly, again and again, that you're less than brilliant at stable or committed relationships; when you invoke God in your writing; when you speak of a tendency towards depression, you would, quite naturally ha...

Hi Tom-- Thanks for the welcome. The troll fight is quite peculiar, I must admit. As for David and Ivana, the world is so small that I thought you might know them. David wrote a novel about Serbian characters and dilemmas ( The Speaking Cure, in English), in which one of his characters is based on B...

I meant that God is on top when it comes to the whole of the work--when you look at the corpus as a whole. Jurica and Tom S.: Do you happen to know Ivana Djordjevic? She's a translator from Serbo-Croatian to English and, although she doesn't translate Cohen, she's a great admirer. How about David Ho...

Thank you for your answer, Tchocolatl. (I still don't know what a troll is--I guess I'll have to go back to old posts and see how it's used). I see what you mean by "comfort"--or "solace": comfort in distress or disappointment. Okay--I get it. Your dream about Cohen saying that e...

Nazaree - I don't speak Italian either, but I thought the Italian for I love you was 'ti amo'. Or am I getting confused with good old Latin amo, amas amat etc.? Hi linmag-- The person who told me that "ti voglio bene" means "I love you" in Italian is a writer from Florence. Ther...

You Troll! Drop your weapon and bring me to your leader! Comply! Tchocolat: What does the above line mean? As for finding comfort in Cohen's work... Perhaps "comfort" is the wrong word. It's not a comforting oeuvre, is it? It's apocalyptic, dark. Funny too, of course. Lyrical. Profoundly ...

Frustrated, I posted in the middle of this discussion. "Do any of you ever talk about Leonard Cohen?" This generated another discussion about whether or not I was a troll. First, would somebody explain to me what a "troll" is (in this particular context, that is)? I'm new here, ...

While we're on the subject of love... Any Italian speakers out there? A long time ago an Italian friend told me that the Italian expression for "I love you" is "ti (te? not sure) voglio bene," which means, quite literally, "I come without evil intentions" or "I wis...

In Quebec, at least, the "tu" is at times (and according to some) overused in the name of a certain democratic spirit--we're all equal, whether we are old, educated, rich, or young, uneducated, and poor. It's not meant in a disrespectful manner. Recently, however, several Quebec columnists...

Hello, I'm new here; this is my first post on this forum. I "discovered" Leonard Cohen at the age of 17, when a French newspaper in Montreal published a French translation of one of Cohen's Recent Songs in its Arts pages. I was enchanted and purchased Death of a Lady's Man (the book), whic...