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mods: Leonard Cohen the man who saw the angels fall Man who saw the angels fall Leonard Cohen. English Lebold, Christophe creator author, translator. text bibliography biography Biographies. Biography Biographies Biographies. Biographies. onc 2024 2024 monographic eng fre print xxxii, 543 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm "Leonard Cohen has aimed high: to be all Jewish heroes at once. Like Jacob, he struggled with angels. Like David, he sang psalms and seduced women. But he never ceased doing what he did best: going from city to city and reviving our hearts. Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall follows the singer's cosmopolitan life from Montreal and New York to the Greek island of Hydra and examines his perpetual dialogues with himself, God, and avalanches. We see how six decades of radiant pessimism and a few thousand nights in hotel rooms transformed a young Jewish poet who longed to be a saint into an existentialist troubadour in love with women and a gravelly voiced crooner who taught a thousand ways of dissolving into love. After more than two decades of research and travels, Christophe Lebold, who befriended the poet and spent time with him in Los Angeles, delivers a stimulating analysis of Cohen's life and art. Gracefully blending biography and essay, he interrogates the mission Cohen set out for himself: to show us that darkness is just the flip side of light"-- Prologue: Three portraits of Leonard Cohen. First point of entry: the man who saw the angels fall -- Second point of entry: eternal pilgrim, perfect Jew -- Third point of entry: Leonard Cohen, metaphysician of the broken heart -- Genesis: autopsy of Leonard Cohen the younger -- The poet and collector of exiles: Leonard's first careers, 1956-1964 -- TV Tzadik and pop poetry: portrait of Leonard as a modern saint, 1961-1966 -- Angels in ember and snow: New York, 1966-1967 -- A troubadour in Manhattan: songs of Leonard Cohen, 1967-1968 -- Into the avalanche: th…