Long before picking up the guitar and giving voice, Leonard Cohen had begun a brilliant career as a writer, marked by the publication of collections of poems, including
Let Us Compare Mythologies
and
Flowers for Hitler
, and two novels, including superb
Beautiful Losers
.
Then came the year 1967 with the release of his first album and his first success,
Suzanne
, while waiting for
Bird on the Wire
and the unbeatable
Hallelujah
.
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As a reminder, we will point out that Leonard Cohen, in the absence of a Nobel, had had all of his literary work rewarded by the Prince of Asturias prize, which before him had crowned Mario Vargas Llosa, Günter Grass, Claudio Magris, Margaret Atwood, and subsequently Philip Roth.
Respect.
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And eight years after the death of Leonard Cohen, here is an essential milestone in his “first life”, in the form of an unpublished novel, written at the age of 23-24, a precious testimony to his first steps in the world of fiction.
Not a bottom drawer or a set of rogatons, but a novel...
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