New book:The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall

[jarkko]

Leonard Cohen aimed high: to be all Jewish heroes at once. Like Jacob, he struggled with angels. Like David, he sang psalms and seduced women. But he never ceased doing what he did best: going from city to city and reviving our hearts. Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall (September 2024) follows the singer’s cosmopolitan life in Montreal and New York as a young Jewish poet who longed to be a saint, all the way to the Greek islands as an existentialist, gravelly-voiced crooner who taught a thousand ways of dissolving into love.

After more than two decades of research and travels, Christophe Lebold, who befriended the poet and spent time with him in Los Angeles, delivers a stimulating analysis of Cohen’s life and art. Gracefully blending biography and essay, he interrogates the mission Cohen set out for himself: to show us that darkness is just the flip side of light.

Claire Pokorchak | Publicity Manager |
ECW PRESS

[LisaLCFan]

This one looks interesting! I shall look forward to reading it.

[dar]

Same here.

[Mary72]

Magnifique!! Loved it french,pleased to know it has been translated to English. A must have.

[Maarten]

Hi

Christophe Lebold was one of our guest speakers during the 2022 Event in Ghent where he was involved in both the panel discussion on "Leonard Cohen and psychiatry" and his own presentation in between two concerts. I haven't read his French book "L'homme qui voyait tomber les anges" which was published in 2013 or 2014 I believe (and had an updated version later (2018?), but this edition also includes his visits to Leonard during the last years of his life. I wanted to skip through it briefly because I'm currently reading something else and was planning on reading it later on, but I found myself still browsing through the book at 2am... Looking forward to reading it from front to back!

Maarten

[B4real]

Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall/Virtual Author Talk with Christophe Lebold

Wednesday, September 11 at 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

https://www.avonctlibrary.info/event/le ... he-lebold/

Join us for a virtual event with Christophe Lebold, to discuss his new book, Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall. This event will be moderated by Amy Weiss, Director, Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies, and Tina Panik, Avon Library.

About the book:

Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall follows the singer’s cosmopolitan life from Montreal and New York to the Greek island of Hydra and examines his perpetual dialogues with himself, God, and avalanches.

We see how six decades of radiant pessimism and a few thousand nights in hotel rooms transformed a young Jewish poet who longed to be a saint into an existentialist troubadour in love with women and a gravelly-voiced crooner who taught a thousand ways of dissolving into love.

After more than two decades of research and travels, Christophe Lebold, who befriended the poet and spent time with him in Los Angeles, delivers a stimulating analysis of Cohen’s life and art. Gracefully blending biography and essay, he interrogates the mission Cohen set out for himself: to show us that darkness is just the flip side of light.

Christophe Lebold is associate professor at the University of Strasbourg (France), where he teaches literature, performance studies, and rock culture. A fan and friend of Leonard Cohen, he has traveled extensively in the poet’s tracks. Also a theater actor and student of Zen, he likes poets, cats, and — in a good mood — all sentient beings.

Please register; Zoom links will be sent out before the event.

Co-sponsored by the Avon Library and Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies.

[abby]

Me too Dar.