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A new book by Roberto Caselli
ISBN 978-8862314
Paperback
384 pages
Arcana TXT Vol.0.53
This book is in Italian, and is exclusively devoted to the 12 studios albums (excluding Popular Problems).
In each of the chapters, all the songs of the album are analyzed one by one, for approximately two or three pages each.

This same info also at www.leonardcohenfiles.com/caselli.html

Thanks to Dominique Boile who found the book first and has now got a copy.
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That sounds very interesting.
I hope it will be translated into English (or German) some day.
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A new updated edition of the book, publication date May 28, 2018
Pages: 418 pages
Publisher: Arcana, Italy
Collection : TXT
Language : Italian
ISBN: 9788862315173

Google translation:
During his eighty-two years of life, Leonard Cohen has experimented a lot. He has distinguished himself as a young writer in the French-speaking Montréal and has also succumbed to poetry, but it is with the music that has gained fame. His songs explore the peaks and miseries of the human soul with lucid sincerity, but in their verses often hides more than an interpretation, which makes it necessary to identify different interpretations that reveal a sometimes symbolic, sometimes dreamlike writing: the Bible , his being a Jew, sex. Like his songbook, his biography also unfolds between obstinate spiritual research and an absolute need for love. Mysticism and passion find in Cohen an unthinkable interpenetration, a supreme synthesis that never risks incoherence. Entering the spirit of the text becomes essential to take possession of all the nuances it expresses, to discover anxieties of life so profound that they become universal. This is what we propose to do this book, a tribute to the long career of one of the most influential songwriters of the last century.
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