New Books 2014

[jarkko]

Here is some additional information from Jacques Vassal:

Over 400 pages about Leonard Cohen and his work - poetry, songs, novels - also using excerpts from interviews in France and elsewhere, some from our own conversations with Leonard over the years since 1970 and his very first concert in France - the Paris Olympia. I was a journalist for "Rock & Folk" and had my first encounter with him back then. Since then I met him many times and along with Jean-Dominique Brierre I worked as French translator for "Selected Poems" ("Poèmes et chansons", publ. 10 X 18 in 1972), author of the first French book "Leonard Cohen (published by Albin Michel/Rock & Folk in 1975, reprinted in 1979) and at Leonard'Cohen's request I also did the French translation of his "Book of mercy" as "Le Livre de miséricorde" (publ.
by Carrère-Lafon in 1985).

[jarkko]

And now we have already the 12th new book (thanks - as so often - to Dominique for the info!)
(and there are more books under way...)



http://www.lalibrairie.com/tous-les-liv ... 19677.html

Jacques Julien: Leonard Cohen - Seul l'Amour (France)
Publisher: TRIPTYQUE
August 18, 2014
Language : French
ISBN: 9782890319677

Google translation of the summary (unedited):

Leonard Cohen's career has unfolded in waves. Admired and celebrated first as a poet, he gave most of his message in his first three albums. If the following, most unusual, were mostly appreciated by connoisseurs, anthologies quickly grafted these new songs to the repertoire of the early years. At the same time, fixed by performers of all generations and all styles of film music, tributes shows have made his work known to the public ever new. On the occasion of world tours that began in 2008, we can say that Cohen appeared again. Formed by Jewish culture and practice of Zen, it takes both the figure of a sage as a prophet in the public eye. The lifestyle he teaches is essentially an art of love: in the context of a civilization declines and a time is coming to an end, only love is an opportunity to light and rally lonely hearts and battered by life. A incoutournable and accessible test for fans of Leonard Cohen, or for those who wish to familiarize themselves with the course of this true legend of song and poetry.

[John Etherington]

Good grief! How many Leonard books have been published lately? I paid my first visit to Foyles for the first time in a while last week, and saw about six I hadn't seen before. While books about LC used to be scarce, it can only be a matter of time before someone publishes "Oh No, Not Another Leonard Cohen Book!" (as happened to Dylan).

[Mabeanie1]

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[jim devlin]

Hi John, the great thing about even more new books is that we learn even more about Leonard and his work; and in so doing they also help to update the books from earlier days (including those published in the 90s!); buy the new HK book and you'll maybe get to enjoy what all the fuss is about.

[Vicomte]

So are all the others!! It's become rather a large bandwagon since Leonard's "comeback" in 2008.

Wendy

No names but the same could easily be said for the rather large legion of fans that have mysteriously appeared since 2008, especially the many women who fawn at the very mention and at shows act like it is a Barry Manolow gig. No one has yet explained this phenomenon to me yet, any one care to explain?

[cohenadmirer]

No names but the same could easily be said for the rather large legion of fans that have mysteriously appeared since 2008, especially the many women who fawn at the very mention and at shows act like it is a Barry Manolow gig. No one has yet explained this phenomenon to me yet, any one care to explain?

Actually a very good question - perhaps someone will do a PhD thesis and then another book??
Perhaps the only type of answer that makes sense is only available to those who have experienced this phenomenon, and then will be different for each so we need skilled interviews and some kind of thematic analysis.
i'm sure there are lots on this forum with some insight into this matter

[Vicomte]

There is another book and going by the title, supposedly "described" by himself but by Jean-Dominique Brierre and Jacques Vassal (make what you want of that!) Obviously I haven't read it, as it is not due out for a week but these two might be up for the job. They are French and so they will be comfortable in a very long winded Philosophical bout and this would be right up their rue.....and with luck maybe a little bit of Simone de Beauvoir melanged with Jean-Paul Sartre is in their blood and we will have answer sometime this century

[John Etherington]

My own book "Cashing in on Cohen" is in the early planning stages...it may or may not happen - remember, you heard it here first!

[MaryB]

I will pay a bazillion dollars for it John, if you sign it.

[Vicomte]

My own book "Cashing in on Cohen" is in the early planning stages...it may or may not happen - remember, you heard it here first!

"Ullo John, gotta new book" in the mode of Alexei Sayle

[Judy]

My own book "Cashing in on Cohen" is in the early planning stages...it may or may not happen - remember, you heard it here first!

[jarkko]

A summary of all new books (now 13 but growing) is at http://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/newbook2014.html




And here we go again: Book # 13 (but not the last one)
LEONARD COHEN. HALLELUJAH. TESTI COMMENTATI
Caselli Roberto
September 17 (or 30, different days on a number of websites)
Publisher: Arcana
In Italian
Price 22 eur
ISBN 9788862314022
288 pages

Google translation:

In the course of his eighty years of life, which will be concluded on
September 21st, Leonard Cohen has experienced a lot. He distinguished
himself as a young writer in the French-speaking Montreal and also
sold to poetry, but it is with the music gained fame. His songs
explore the peaks and the miseries of the human soul with sincerity
shines, but in their verses often hides more than one interpretation,
making it necessary to find different interpretations that reveal a
writing sometimes symbolic, sometimes dreamlike: the Bible, the his
being jew, sex. Like his songbook, including his biography unfolds
between stubborn spiritual pursuits and absolute necessity of love.
Mysticism and passion are in an unthinkable interpenetration Cohen, a
supreme synthesis that never risk the inconsistency. Returning to the
stage of the world after long years in a Buddhist monastery, Cohen
continues to amaze us with his songs-poems interpreted in a voice
deeper and deeper, to the limit of the narrative. Get into the spirit
of the text becomes essential to get hold of all the nuances that
express, to discover anxieties of life so deep that they become
universal. This is what we propose to do this book, a tribute to the
hearing and proper long career as one of the most influential
songwriters of the last century.

Thanks to Dominique Boile for finding this item at amazon.it

[Tchocolatl]

What's wrong with money? Exactly? To begin with.

Second, I can't believe that all those books where not written because of the passion for the subject. (Now if money follows the passion, very good. May we all live in the Land of Plenty. As far as I am concerned.)

I must say that I would not have read any one of those books. I was quite happy a woman without.

But I won Jacques Julien's book titled Leonard Cohen : seul l'amour... and I was happy as a child about that, just to have win something, ey! What a surprise. The biggest surprise though was the pleasure I had to read that book. Just here and there for now (I don't have time right now to sit down comfortably and savoure it like it deserves.)

Who said that a book is a friend? Well probably not someone in this thread, yet, but that book feels very friendly to me.

This particular book was not written with money in mind, but because of a woman (what else, concerning Leonard Cohen?).

It is dedicated like that :

Pour France, qui aime tellement Leonard Cohen et qui a commandé l'écriture de cet ouvrage : "Sans amour, la vie a très peu de sens." (Leonard Cohen)

It would be sad that chronic (and free) cynicism would spoil some true magical moments.

[basecamp]

First look at On Tour with Leonard Cohen by Sharon Robinson:



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