The Flame

Resumen del libro

Just weeks before his death in late 2016, Leonard Cohen told The New Yorker that he was ready for the end to come. He just wanted enough time to put his last book in order. Fortunately, that time was granted. The Flame is Cohen's eloquent farewell, a valedictory collection of lyrics, poems, notebook sketches, and self-portraits that maps his singular creative journey. As noted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's citation, For six decades, Leonard Cohen revealed his soul to the world through poetry and song his deep and timeless humanity touching our very core.

In addition to new poems about war, desire, regrets, lamb chops, and hummingbirds, and lyrics from his last three albums, including the chart-topping You Want It Darker, The Flame includes carefully selected excerpts from Cohen's voluminous notebooks, which he kept faithfully over the years. Readers will find in these pages the subjects that have always preoccupied Cohen: the dimensions of love, the secret code of existence, and the hope for transcendence in a broken world.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Leonard Cohenx{0026}lt;/B nació en Montreal en 1934 y falleció en Los Ángeles en noviembre de 2016. Poeta, novelista, músico y cantante, este hombre polifacético supo reflejar las emociones de más de una generación de mujeres y hombres que buscaban en su obra aliento y consuelo, y en 2011 se le concedió el Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras. Cohen grabó más de veinte discos, entre ellos clásicos como x{0026}lt;I Songs of Leonard Cohenx{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I Songs From a Roomx{0026}lt;/I . Su carrera literaria empezó en 1956 con la publicación de su primer libro de poesía, x{0026}lt;I Let Us Compare Mythologiesx{0026}lt;/I . Lumen ha editado su obra poética más conocida, x{0026}lt;I Libro del anhelox{0026}lt;/I (2006), sus dos novelas, x{0026}lt;I El juego favoritox{0026}lt;/I (2017) y x{0026}lt;I Hermosos perdedoresx{0026}lt;/I (2017), y la recopilación de su narrativa incluida en x{0026}lt;I Un ballet de leprosos. Una novela y relatos inéditosx{0026}lt;/I (2023).x{0026}lt;/P