2024-03-16 14:35:12
– Unpublished texts by Leonard Cohen finally published
In addition to the texts of the Montreal songwriter, we recommend a Swiss graphic novel in the vein of Tarantino and a tragicomic satire.
Published today at 3:35 p.m.
Eight years after the death of Leonard Cohen, a collection bringing together a short novel that remained unpublished as well as a dozen shorter texts signed by the Montrealer has just been published.
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The found texts of Leonard Cohen
Novel and short stories – Eight years after his death, Leonard Cohen (1934-2016) is still giving news. Literally and figuratively, a collection has just been published bringing together a short novel that has remained unpublished as well as a dozen shorter texts. The literary ambitions of the man who would become the singer-songwriter we know were already well known to those who had read the comic “Jeux de dames” or the mystico-depressive “The Magnificent Losers” (1966).
The brief novel “A Leper’s Ballet” is closer to the first, less funny but more cruel. This text, probably written around 1956-1957, in any case allows us to find what will characterize the songwriting of the Montrealer: a powerful tension between exalted aspirations and carnal surrenders. “I was planning a checkmate with an invisible regiment.” Passion and shock collide in this story where a young man finds himself torn between romantic expectations that are always too high, the execution of a merciless revenge on ugliness and family compassion for a completely unworthy grandfather. The (Kafkaesque?) miracle of this story, both tortured and impassioned, shines in the juxtaposition of these contradictory dimensions. BSE
“A ballet of lepers”, Leonard Cohen, Ed. Threshold, 304 p.
Also read: A macabre Tarantino-style ballet
The cover of “We’re all going to die”, by Bienne resident Tobias Aeschbacher.
ED. HELVETIQ
Graphic novel – When a little striker names his gun Carole, you can expect anything. And above all to a delusional story. The one led by Tobias Aeschbacher is worth its weight in peanuts. For his first graphic novel, this Biel native, nourished by Tarantino films and pop culture, imagines a story with an offbeat atmosphere, which begins with a beautiful group of branques in search of a stolen funeral urn.
In the building where they enter, the evil trio will come across a host of extravagant characters: young robbers, old perverts, teenage cannabis growers, a couple of suicidal old men, a philosophical and antisocial killer… Between the thugs and the fragile antiheroes that they rub shoulders, it’s going to be severe, over the course of a macabre ballet full of twists and turns. Absurd destinies depicted with beautiful black humor in a scenario that is on fire. PMU
“We are all going to die”, Tobias Aeschbacher, Ed. Helvetiq, 128 p.
A zebra in war
Roman – In an Eastern European city, which could be Odessa in Ukraine, Paul is arrested by the local autocrat for insulting him on social media. Filmed while he is brutally humiliated, he is pursued by this degrading image in this dehumanized universe. Written as a somewhat televised tragicomic satire, “A Zebra in the War” (a real escapee from a zoo who wanders the streets) was published before the Russian aggression in Ukraine and describes the gray and disenchanted life of a city given over to violence and arbitrariness. OBO
“A zebra in the war” by Vladimir Vertlib, Ed. Metallic, 256 p.
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