Guilherme Marconato Marconato itibaren Umrala, Gujarat 362110, Hindistan itibaren Umrala, Gujarat 362110, Hindistan

Tamam, tamam, sonunda okudum. "The Wide Sargasso Sea" adlı edebi cevabı gördüm, duydum ve hatta okudum, fakat gerçek metni hiç okumamıştım. İlk başta, aynı eski, yetim, hayır davası, hükmet, usta-aşk arsası tarafından gözyaşları sıkıldım, ama sonuçta oldukça ilginçleşti. Sonunda, nesirden gerçekten hoşlandım ve zamanın cesur bir metin olduğunu görebiliyorum ve en azından saygı duymayı hak ediyordum.

Bu kitabı ipten caddede kullanılan bir kitapçıda ironik bir şekilde aldı. birkaç yıl önce Greenwich köyünde ve gerçekten zevk almak o. Ancak, tüm isim düşürmeyi sevmedim.

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This book is a bit of a wasted opportunity. While not an official biography, Nadel had access to tons of people close to Cohen, and the book was “benignly tolerated” by Cohen himself. But the author apparently chose to ignore Cohen’s advice not to let “the facts get in the way of the truth.” Nadel, a professor of English at the University of British Columbia, is clearly a fan, but he seems reluctant to own the material or to impose any kind of overarching interpretation on Cohen’s life and work. Despite Nadel's academic bona fides, the book doesn't rise to the level of a critical biography. There's inadequate effort devoted to contextualizing Cohen, and there are only feeble attempts to pass critical judgment on his work and career. Slogging through Various Positions’ lackluster prose, you wish either for a book by a fan who loves the music and isn't afraid to make an impassioned and unapologetic argument as to why, or by someone with little emotional connection to Cohen who can contextualize and dissect and get some real critical distance on the guy and his work. That said, the book does dutifully trudge through all facets of his career (up to his comeback in the early nineties), so you learn a lot of details about the songs and the life, but Nadel never succeeds in capturing the essence of the man. Any attempt to impose a single meaning on any individual life is inevitably a distortion, but a good biographer should at least take a stab at it. Instead, Nadel has given us the life of Leonard Cohen as one damn thing after another.