Leonard Cohen

A Ballet of Lepers (Bok)

An unprecedented glimpse into the formation of the legendary talent of Leonard Cohen. Before the celebrated late-career world tours, before the Grammy awards, before the chart-topping albums, before 'Hallelujah' and 'So Long, Marianne' and 'Famous Blue Raincoat', the young Leonard Cohen wrote poetry and fiction and yearned for literary stardom. In A Ballet of Lepers, readers will discover that the magic that animated Cohen's unforgettable body of work was present from the very beginning. Written between 1956 in Montreal, just as Cohen was publishing his first poetry collection, and 1961, when he'd settled on Greece's Hydra island, the pieces in this collection offer startling insight into Cohen's imagination and creative process, and explore themes that would permeate his later work, from shame and unworthiness to sexual desire 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, 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. Meditative, surprising, playful and provocative, A Ballet of Lepers is vivid in its detail, unsparing in its gaze, and reveals the great artist and visceral genius like never before.

Författare:	Leonard Cohen
Titel:	A Ballet of Lepers
Typ:	Bok
Kategori:	Böcker/Skönlitteratur/Utländsk
Releasedatum:	2022-10-11
Registreringsdatum:	2022-05-25
Artikelnummer:	770043
Lagerstatus:	Beställningsvara Leveranstid: från 14 vardagar
EAN:	9781838852931
ISBN:	1838852931
Språk:	Engelska
Bandtyp:	Inbunden
Mått(BxHxD):	161x242x25 mm
Omfång:	272 sidor
Vikt:	466 gram
Titel:	A Ballet of Lepers
Förlag:	Canongate