Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall (Hardback)

I am deeply respectful of the mind that has produced this book. LEONARD COHEN, Email to the Author[In] this intricate biography … the author approaches Cohen with bright curiosity, delighting in tiny details. Thanks to Lebold’s vibrant analysis, he’s very much back. ★★★★ MOJOA literary masterpiece.JEFF FLEISCHER, Foreword ReviewsAn impressive piece of work: Christophe Lebold has chosen a literary form for his homage and succeeds. ERIC NAULLEAU, literary criticThe book, like the singer, embraces the sacred and the profane. Booklist A rhapsodic and fluidly written new take on Canadian poet/crooner/troubadour and pessimistic, introspective social commentator Cohen. Library Journal Praise for the French Edition:The best book about Leonard Cohen. JEAN-LUC PORQUET, Le canard enchainéAn extraordinary piece of work, at every level ... It’s the biographical denouement that Leonard deserves. MICHAEL POSNER, author of Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories: The Early YearsCrammed with photos, footnotes, a blizzard of evidence, of fantastic research and opinion: this is ESSENTIAL. JIM DEVLIN, author of Leonard Cohen: In His Own Words and In Every Style of Passion: The Works of Leonard CohenCombining scholarly biography, luminous exegesis, and metaphysics of the broken heart, this is the Summa Cohenia we needed. BERNARD LOUPIAS, Le nouvel observateurAn erudite and amorous page-turner on the wandering Canadian, that reaches beyond dates and facts.EMMANUEL DOSDA, PolyCohen ceaselessly questions the world, as Christophe Lebold brilliantly demonstrates in Leonard Cohen : L’Homme qui voyait tomber less anges, a learned, vibrant, and inspired study devoted to the immortal creator of ‘Hallelujah. MYRIAM PERFETTI, MarianneWith wide-angle shots of the Cohen constellation and clever close-ups on this loved woman or that inhabited place. This work is a treasure: the wind of rock has blown there and vibration rhymes with erudition. VINCENT DUSSOL, TransatlanticaCohen under the surgeon’s scalpel: a book that retraces Leonard Cohen’s unique poetic odyssey, and combines liveliness and passion with a scholarly twist. The inspired biographer crystallizes the different avatars of ‘the man who saw the angels fall’ and takes us along on the poet’s existential quest.” — Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace “It’s marvelous and highly recommended. Crammed with photos, footnotes, a blizzard of evidence, of fantastic research and opinion: this is ESSENTIAL. JIM DELVIN, author of Leonard Cohen: In His Own Words and In Every Style of Passion: The Works of Leonard CohenChristophe Lebold devotes to the poet a marvelous volume, which opens with a triptych on gravity, wandering, and the broken heart. DANIEL BOUGNOUX, La CroixAn impressive piece of work: Christophe Lebold has chosen a literary form for his homage and succeeds. The book rises to the level of its subject and that is not saying little. ERIC NAULLEAU, literary criticA great and very stylish book that makes you feel the poet’s soul. PIERRE CHARPILLOZ, Réservoir (culture)