Лучшие книги Леонарда Коэна

"Любимая игра" была написана в 60-е годы, и в ней без ущерба друг для друга соединились романтика битников и стройно изложенная история любви и взросления юного монреальского раздолбая не без писательских способностей по имени Бривман. Подано внятно и трогательно. А местами даже смешно. Коэн пишет - как поет. Тех, кого зачаровывает его ленивая хрипотца нисколько не разочарует его литературный стиль, лирический, но сильный и честный в своей безыскусности. Мир под воздействием его слова переплавляется на глазах в нечто гораздо более красочное, естественное и непритворное, в мир, где хочется жить.

Литература Леонарда Коэна - духовного гуру "поколения искренних" - напоминает сон. Острый, противоречивый, тонкий, святой, греховный. Похожий на бред, в котором говорят правду. "Грех. Блистательные неудачники" - книга о любви. Во всех ее проявлениях. О любви тайной и безумной, которая дарует рай и неминуемо ведет к вратам ада. А еще это ошеломляюще искренний рассказ о трех людях, которые не могли быть вместе, потому что вместе им было слишком хорошо...

Всемирно известный певец и поэт Леонард Коэн писал "Книгу томления" во время своего пятилетнего пребывания в дзен-монастыре в Южной Калифорнии, а позже в Лос-Анджелесе, Монреале и Мумбаи. Этот сборник поэзии стал первым за двадцать лет молчания. Стихи, как и всегда у Коэна, сопровождаются рисунками, которые неожиданным образом дополняют его медитативный, глубокий и ироничный авторский стиль.

Леонард Коэн (р. 1934) завоевал любовь слушателей всего мира своими песнями, во многом определившими облик популярной музыки XX века. Он также знаменит двумя блестящими романами - "Любимая игра" (1963) и "Прекрасные неудачники" (1966). Но подлинную известность принесло ему поэтическое творчество - с 1956-го по 1993-й он выпустил 9 сборников стихов и текстов. В эту книгу вошли избранные ранние произведения Леонарда Коэна, многие из которых публикуются на русском языке впервые.

"Пламя" - последняя работа Леонарда Коэна. Несколько поколений по всему миру выросло, слушая его альбомы. "Пламя" - это возможность узнать о самых сокровенных мыслях и чувствах поэта и музыканта, которого не стало в 2016 году. Эта книга стала итогом его жизни, прожитой остроумно и с размахом, она стала своего рода прощанием. Если вы поклонник песни "A thousand kisses deep", эта книга для вас.

Леонард Коэн - лауреат самых престижных поэтических и музыкальных премий Нового Света, номинировался на Нобелевскую премию по литературе. Между тем русскому читателю Коэн до сих пор знаком исключительно по подстрочникам, дающим весьма приблизительное представление о его таланте. В этой книге творчество прославленного канадского поэта и музыканта впервые представлено в должной полноте в поэтическом переложении на русский язык, в ней содержатся как самые ранние, так и новейшие произведения. Источниками "Избранных стихотворений" послужили известные поэтические сборники и музыкальные диски Коэна.

A Persian version of Canadian singer and songwriter Leonard Cohen’s poetry anthology “The Energy of Slaves”.

Poems and Songs

This anthology contains a cross-section covering his career, including such legendary songs as 'Suzanne', 'Sisters of Mercy', 'Bird on the Wire', 'Famous Blue Raincoat' and 'I'm Your Man' and searingly memorable poems from many collections including Flowers for Hitler, Beautiful Losers and Death of a Lady's Man. Encompassing the erotic and the melancholy, the mystical and the sardonic, this volume showcases a writer of dazzling intelligence and live-wire emotional immediacy.

To mark the publication of Leonard Cohen's final book, The Flame, McClelland & Stewart is proud to reissue six beautiful editions of Cohen's cherished early works of poetry, many of which are back in print for the first time in decades.

A freshly packaged new series for devoted Leonard Cohen fans and those who wish to discover one of the world's most adored and celebrated writers.

Originally published by McClelland & Stewart in 1978, Death of a Lady's Man reinvented Cohen on the printed page, featuring a daring series of poems and prose poems, each of which is addressed--and often rebutted--in accompanying pieces of commentary. Maddening, thrilling, and truly singular, Cohen's sixth book contains some of the most challenging and startling work of his oeuvre. It is a genre-busting masterpiece well ahead of its time.

When his first album made him an unlikely star in the late 1960s, Leonard Cohen was hailed as the new poet of song. His melodies were hauntingly melodic but his lyrics were like no one else's - poignant, romantic, mystical and darkly comic. Already a poet and a novelist, Cohen had found another calling in song..."The Songs of Leonard Cohen", "Songs from a Room" and "Songs of Love and Hate" were the titles of his first three albums. Eight more would follow over the next 40 years. In this collector's edition, can be found the lyrics to over 100 of those classic songs, many of them now recorded by new generations of singers that include U2, Nick Cave, Rufus Wainwright and Teddy Thompson. This unique collection demonstrates why.

A never-before-published early novel and stories by the legendary musician, songwriter, and poet Leonard Cohen

Before Leonard Cohen’s worldwide fame expanded to fourteen studio albums, Grammy awards, and late-career global tours, he yearned for literary stardom. The Canadian songwriter of iconic hits like “Hallelujah,” “Suzanne,” and “Famous Blue Raincoat” first ventured into writing in his early twenties, and in A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories , readers will discover that the magic that animated Cohen’s unforgettable body of work was present from the very beginning of his career. The pieces in this collection, written between 1956 and 1961 and including short fiction, a radio play, and a stunning early novel, offer startling insights into Cohen’s imagination and creative process. Cohen explores themes that would permeate his later work, from shame and unworthiness to sexual desire in all its sacred and profane dimensions to longing, whether for love, family, freedom, or transcendence. The titular novel, A Ballet of Lepers —one he later remarked was “probably a better novel” than his celebrated book The Favourite Game — is a haunting examination of these elements in tandem, focusing on toxic relationships and the lengths to which one will go to maintain them, while the fifteen stories, as well as the playscript, probe the inner demons of his characters, many of whom could function as stand-ins for the author himself. Cohen's work is meditative and surprising, offering playful, provocative, and penetrating glimpses into the world-weary lives of his characters, and a window into the early art of a storytelling master. A Ballet of Lepers , vivid in its detail, unsparing in its gaze, reveals the great artist and visceral genius as never seen before.

Leonard Cohen aloitti taiteilijanuransa runoilijana. Vuonna 1956 ilmestynyt runokokoelma Vertailkaamme mytologioita (Let us compare mythologies) on hänen esikoisteoksensa. Se julkaistiin alunperin montrealilaisen McGill-yliopiston julkaisusarjassa 400 kappaleen painoksena pian sen jälkeen kun Cohen oli lopettanut kirjallisuuden opiskelun samaisessa oppilaitoksessa. Kokoelmassa esiintyvät Leonard Cohenin läpi uran mukana kulkeneet teemat: rakkaus, mystiikka, uskonto ja runous.

To mark the publication of Leonard Cohen's final book, The Flame, McClelland & Stewart is proud to reissue six beautiful editions of Cohen's cherished early works of poetry, many of which are back in print for the first time in decades.

A freshly packaged new series for devoted Leonard Cohen fans and those who wish to discover one of the world's most adored and celebrated writers.

Originally published by McClelland & Stewart in 1966, Parasites of Heaven came in the wake of the success of Cohen's second novel, Beautiful Losers. While not as ambitious as his three previous collections, Parasites of Heaven is an essential document in Cohen's evolution as it contains poems that would go on to form the basis of some of his most beloved songs, including Suzanne and Avalanche.

To mark the publication of Leonard Cohen's final book, The Flame, McClelland & Stewart is proud to reissue six beautiful editions of Cohen's cherished early works of poetry, many of which are back in print for the first time in decades.

A freshly packaged new series for devoted Leonard Cohen fans and those who wish to discover one of the world's most adored and celebrated writers.

Originally published by McClelland & Stewart in 1961, The Spice-Box of Earth was Leonard Cohen's breakout book, announcing the arrival of a major talent, and a popular one--the first edition sold out in less than three months, and one reviewer hailed Cohen as "probably the best young poet in English Canada right now." In his second collection, Cohen deepens his engagement with subjects that would define his career; as biographer Sylvie Simmons argues, "the poems dance back and forth across the border between the holy and the worldly, the elevated and the carnal."

This selection of poems by Leonard Cohen, one of the most acclaimed singer-songwriters in the world, is accompanied by twenty-four of his striking and provocative drawings.

Cohen first made his name as a poet more than half a century ago and since then his achievements in poetry and music have made him an internationally revered figure. These fifteen poems, including “Death of a Lady’s Man,” “On Hearing a Name Long Unspoken,” and “The Embrace,” are drawn from across his remarkable career and appear here for the first time with his illustrations. With its lyrical intensity and sensual immediacy, Fifteen Poems offers a potent distillation of the genre-crossing genius of one of the most admired artists of our time.