The Demons of Leonard Cohen

By: Francis Mus, Laura Vroomen (Translator)

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Paperback | 1 November 2020

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'With my jingle in your brain, allow the Bridge to arch again'. How are we to understand Leonard Cohen's plea? Who speaks to whom in this oeuvre spanning six decades? Francis Mus considers the different guises or 'demons' that the Canadian singer-songwriter assumes.

The wide international circulation of Cohen’s work has resulted in a partial severing with the context of its creation. Much of it has filtered through the public image forged by the artist and his critics in concerts, interviews and reflective texts. Consequently, this monograph is less a biography than a reception study, supplemented with extensive archival research, unpublished documents, and interviews with colleagues and privileged witnesses. At the same time, this book sheds new light on the dynamic of a comprehensive oeuvre spanning a period of sixty years.

About the Author

Francis Mus is a research fellow at the University of Antwerp (Belgium). He wrote his doctoral thesis on the internationalization of the Belgian avant-garde, and in 2015 published a Dutch monograph on Leonard Cohen, which earned him the literary essay prize of East Flanders. He has lectured extensively on Cohen's work, in cities such as Paris, Montreal, and Tel Aviv, and has published several academic articles, including a chapter in the award-winning collection Les revolutions de Leonard Cohen (2016).

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"An imaginative reading uncovering the many masks of Leonard Cohen with special attention to the music and poetry of Canada's most intriguing writer/poet/artist/singer. At last, a glimpse of the genuine Cohen."

-- Ira Nadel

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