Cohen, Leonard - Cohen, Leonard 1934–
Cohen, Leonard 1934–
Cohen is a Canadian poet, novelist, songwriter, and singer. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 21-22.)
The Favorite Game …, written by a young Montreal poet, Leonard Cohen, is doubly familiar because in addition to describing the position of a young Jew in his native but forever-alien land (French-Canadian Montreal), the author has obviously drawn on the available wealth of sad-young-men literature of the West. Goethe's Werther, Turgenev's "superfluous man," Flaubert's Frédéric Moreau, and all the hordes of lost youths of our own country described by such writers as Anderson, Fitzgerald, and Wolfe have contributed their tradition and their peculiar nostalgic bouquet to The Favorite Game. Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise is most strongly evoked here, because of the journal-style, the poetry fillers, and the emphasis on adolescent love.
But Cohen goes much farther than Fitzgerald or the...
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