One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, "Beautiful Losers" is Cohen's most defiant and uninhibited work. The novel centres upon the hapless members of a love triangle united by their sexual obsessions and by their fascination with Catherine Tekakwitha, the 17th-century Mohawk saint. By turns vulgar, rhapsodic, and viciously witty, "Beautiful Losers" explores each character's attainment of a state of self-abandonment, in which the sensualist cannot be distinguished from the saint. "From the Paperback edition."

本书为早期后现代主义文学作品，通过“我”——一个英裔民俗学家，和“我”的导师、同性恋伙伴——法裔民族主义者F之间的断续交流、回忆以及仅存于他们意念中的“我”的妻子——印第安女子伊迪丝和历史上第一个印第安贞女圣徒凯瑟琳·特卡奎萨的言行、生平的片断描写，表现了二十世纪六十年代西方那段躁动的历史、放浪的生活。
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Leonard Cohen wrote the poems in Book of Longing —his first book of poetry in more than twenty years—during his five-year stay at a Zen monastery on Southern California's Mount Baldy, and in Los Angeles, Montreal, and Mumbai. This dazzling collection is enhanced by the author's playful and provocative drawings, which interact in exciting, unexpected ways on the page with poetry that is timeless, meditative, and often darkly humorous. An international sensation, Book of Longing contains all the elements that have brought Cohen's artistry with language worldwide recognition.

Internationally celebrated for his writing and his music, Leonard Cohen is one of the legendary writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. Book of Longing is his dazzling new collection of poetry -- twenty years in the making -- written on southern California's Mount Baldy and in Los Angeles, Montreal, and Mumbai. Following his highly acclaimed 1984 publication, Book of Mercy, and containing Cohen's own playful and provocative line drawings, Book of Longing brings together all the elements that have elevated Leonard Cohen's artistry to worldwide recognition. </p>

「搖滾樂界的拜倫」李歐納．科恩作品，現代小說經典
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李歐納．科恩寫了一首詩，但偽裝成小說，這首詩的名字是《美麗失敗者》。
人類學家，他的妻子艾狄絲，以及好友F三個人，愛慾錯綜交纏。人類學家迷戀著四百年前的聖女凱特琳，思念著逝世的妻子和好友F。F的鬼魂藉著文字還魂，穿越時間與死亡，試圖傳遞祕而不宣的信息給他猶在人間的朋友……
《美麗失敗者》是一個愛的故事，然而愛的本質那麼奇特，說故事的人明明尋著了合拍的語言，聽在人們的耳裡卻全然地荒腔走板，宛如喪失儀式的宗教，亡佚旋律的歌曲，宛如訴說真理卻無人信服的先知。
1960年代的夏天，年輕的李歐納．科恩在希臘小島海德拉（Hydra）就著海風露天寫作，頭上是地中海的太陽，眼前是愛琴海的波光。小島生活樸素，酒與麵包，文字與愛情，一根菸度過一個漫長的午后。在這個天光充盈的拜占庭，他完成了這部60年代氣味濃烈，而又具體呈現人類存在處境的作品。
科恩企圖以失敗者的姿態與心境，行過死蔭之地，渡過生與死，記憶與遺忘的大河，逾越政治、種族、性別、宗教的邊界。他是否抵達彼岸，無人得知。只聽說，他從深淵回來那天下午，天上滿是黑色的鸛鳥。
關於李歐納．科恩
李歐納．科恩，身分多元，是詩人，是小說家，是劇作家，也是創作歌手。1934年生於加拿大蒙特婁。1956年，他出版第一本詩集《讓我們比擬神話》（Let Us Compare Mythologies）時，仍在大學就讀。接著他出版了《大地的香料盒》（The Spice-Box of Earth）（1961）、《給希特勒的花》（Flowers For Hitler）（1964）三本詩集及一本小說《鍾愛的遊戲》（The Favourite Game）（1963），第二本詩集《大地的香料盒》出版後，便在加拿大詩誦界頗受注目。不過，早年這些書大都只印行數百本，做為一名純詩人，在加拿大是很難糊口的。
創作《美麗失敗者》
1960年，對都市生活的厭倦與困頓，在一個率性即興的決定下，科恩買了一張單程的希臘機票，飛往雅典，再搭小船駛往愛琴海中的海德拉（Hydra）小島上，尋找另一個生活與寫作的空間。陽光、海水、白牆、空屋，小島上的生活極為簡單樸素、沒有電、自己取水，只要籌足一千元美金可以在這兒過上一年，足夠應付酒與麵包，以及不受管制的毒品買賣。
《美麗失敗者》就是在這樣環境下寫成的。這本小說，其實是詩與散文體的無盡延伸，跟他的先前創作一樣，主要關切主題是愛與性的渴求、失能與自剖。為了置放所選擇的話題，他採用不同的敘述手法，時而痞子似的喃喃自語、哭訴或吶喊，時而又是一些神秘語彙的佈達，穿插著廣告文體般的短句，一會兒又是寫實報導文詞的腔調，極像一個毒癮發作卻仍愛慾高漲而又無助的失意者恣意荒謬地叫嚎。事實上，科恩藉助了大量安非他命的興奮提示，以加強他既凝聚又飛散的意識力，在1965年底才勉力完成第一版初稿。
歌手科恩
科恩在二十五歲左右開始嘗試將自己的詩作改為歌曲，但一直要到1966年，Judy Collins唱了由他的詩作所改編的〈蘇珊〉（Suzanne）並引起回響之後，柯恩才開始投入更多的心力在詞曲創作上。1967年，三十四歲的他出了第一張專輯《李歐納．科恩之歌》（Songs of Leonard Cohen），為那個搖滾樂震天價響、目眩神馳的六○年代，帶來意外而動人的寧靜。自此，科恩開始了他另一個創作身分。他的歌曲深富詩意，有人稱他為「搖滾樂界的拜倫」。
一本需要體驗的小說
歌手科恩，是最容易被認識、最快被瞭解的身分；詩人科恩，是科恩最早進入的創作領域，也是他獲取桂冠榮譽的憑藉；小說家科恩，則是他最不被領略，讀者也最不知如何欣賞的身分，可也是科恩融合他在各種領域創作精神的試煉場。2003年，《美麗失敗者》的中文版，在英文版出版三十七年後終於面市，而科恩已經準備邁入七十大壽了。對於《美麗失敗者》被譯成中文出版，科恩當年也感到欣喜，畢竟他自己曾研究過中國的詩歌和禪學。不過他也坦然地說，讀者在閱讀《美麗失敗者》時的態度不宜太嚴肅，就連英文版讀者也一樣，否則這會是一本很難閱讀的書。科恩建議讀者隨意翻看，遇到不喜歡的地方就跳過去，說不定會有某些段落會引發讀者的好奇心。因為這本書是在希臘的海島上，無遮蔽的大太陽下寫成的，所以科恩說：「在你手中的不是一本書，而是一種中暑的症狀。」
《美麗失敗者》引發了我們一種新的閱讀方式，不去在意小說的敘事、故事的情節、脈絡的合理性，而以純粹感官的閱讀，以身體的韻律去體驗，讓身體的直接來感受文字的流動與跳躍，是一種如閱讀詩歌般的欣賞方式。
推薦好評
他的文字與音樂一向咀嚼著沮喪、抑鬱、受苦，但又要勇敢、浪漫地面對這種墮落與絕望。他永遠在訴說男性心靈的卑微與脆弱，愛與自由的永續追尋，而又不斷挫敗。本書亦是如此，它是一本救贖的小說，一段試圖拯救靈魂的練習過程。 ——張照堂
很多人都說科恩首先是個詩人，然後才是歌手。然而，誰能抗拒他那要死不活而又自憐低沈的嗓音呢。他的詞即使脫離旋律，仍然有著深邃動人的力量。然而，科恩的旋律也是過耳難忘的。作為音樂人的科恩，仍然足以在樂史上投下高大的身影。只是他的詩太好，光芒往往掩蓋了他的音樂。 ——馬世芳
耀眼，狂放，才氣縱橫……喬伊斯猶在人間……他以科恩之名居住在蒙特婁，而從亨利．米勒的角度來書寫。——波士頓週日先鋒報
「加拿大有史以來最激進和非凡的小說之一。」——加拿大廣播公司
「我讀過的最生動，最迷人，最勇敢的現代小說。」——《英倫情人》作者麥可．翁達傑
「加拿大有史以來最複雜、博學，最迷人的小說。」——加拿大現代文學評論先驅戴斯蒙德．佩西（Desmond Pacey）
「令人目眩神移的書寫……本書的讀者看到的是既可怕又美麗的景致。」——紐約時報
「讓人為之屏息，瞠目結舌……科恩是個雷霆萬鈞，而又詩意盎然的作者。」——達拉斯時代報（Dallas Times-Herald）

The Flame is a stunning collection of Leonard Cohen's last poems, selected and ordered by the author in the final months of his life. Featuring lyrics, prose pieces and illustrations, the book also contains an extensive selection from Cohen's notebooks, which he kept in poetic form throughout his life, and offers an unprecedentedly intimate look inside the life and mind of a singular artist and thinker.
An enormously powerful final chapter in Cohen's storied literary career, The Flame showcases the full range of Leonard Cohen's lyricism, from the exquisitely transcendent to the darkly funny. By turns devastatingly sad and winningly strange, these are the works of a poet and lyricist who has plumbed the depths of our darkest questions and come up wanting, yearning for more.

Popular since its original publication more than 25 years ago, Leonard Cohen's classic book of contemporary psalms is now beautifully repackaged.
Internationally celebrated for his writing and his music, Leonard Cohen is revered as one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. Now beautifully repackaged, the poems in Book of Mercy brim with praise, despair, anger, doubt and trust. Speaking from the heart of the modern world, yet in tones that resonate with an older devotional tradition, these verses give voice to our deepest, most powerful intuitions.

Popular since its original publication more than 25 years ago, Leonard Cohen's classic book of contemporary psalms is now beautifully repackaged.
Internationally celebrated for his writing and his music, Leonard Cohen is revered as one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. Now beautifully repackaged, the poems in Book of Mercy brim with praise, despair, anger, doubt and trust. Speaking from the heart of the modern world, yet in tones that resonate with an older devotional tradition, these verses give voice to our deepest, most powerful intuitions.

In this unforgettable novel, Leonard Cohen boldly etches the youth and early manhood of Lawrence Breavman, only son of an old Jewish family in Montreal. Life for Breavman is made up of dazzling colour – a series of motion pictures fed through a high-speed projector: the half-understood death of his father; the adult games of love and war, with their infinite capacity for fantasy and cruelty; his secret experiments with hypnotism; the night-long adventures with Krantz, his beloved comrade and confidant. Later, achieving literary fame as a college student, Breavman does penance through manual labour, but ultimately flees to New York. And although he has loved the bodies of many women, it is only when he meets Shell, whom he awakens to her own beauty, that he discovers the totality of love and its demands, and comes to terms with the sacrifices he must make.

Published in 1956 to immediate acclaim, Leonard Cohen’s first published book contains poems written between the ages of fifteen and twenty. Now new generations of readers will rediscover not only the early, though no less accomplished and passionate, work of one of our most beloved writers, but poetry that resonates loudly with relevance today.

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.
In the words of Cohen’s longtime manager and friend, Robert Kory, The Flame “reveals to all the intensity of his inner fire” to the end.

10 years ago, Welcome Books published the star of its Art & Poetry Series, Dance Me to the End of Love , a deliriously romantic song by Leonard Cohen that was brilliantly visualized through the sensual paintings of Henri Matisse. Now for its 10-year anniversary, Welcome is thrilled to present the entirely re-imagined and redesigned Dance Me to the End of Love. With the art of Matisse and the words of Cohen still at the heart of the book, the new look and feel of this Art & Poetry book is overwhelmingly beautiful.
Cohen's song is a lyrical tribute to the miracle of love, the grace it bestows on us and its healing, restorative power. Originally recorded on his Various Positions album, and featured in Cohen's anthology, Stranger Music , this poetic song is gloriously married to the art works by Henri Matisse, perhaps the greatest artist of the twentieth century. "I had this dance within me for a long time," Matisse once said in describing one of his murals. Dance Me to the End of Love is the perfect book for art lovers, song lovers, and all other lovers as well.

Published in 1956 to immediate acclaim, Leonard Cohen’s first published book contains poems written between the ages of fifteen and twenty. Now new generations of readers will rediscover not only the early, though no less accomplished and passionate, work of one of our most beloved writers, but poetry that resonates loudly with relevance today.

Leonard Cohen is one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time.
is Cohen’s eagerly awaited new collection of poems, following his highly acclaimed 1984 title,
, and his hugely successful 1993 publication,
, a
national bestseller.
contains erotic, playful, and provocative line drawings and artwork on every page, by the author, which interact in exciting and unexpected ways on the page with poetry that is timeless, meditative, and at times darkly humorous. The book brings together all the elements that have brought Leonard Cohen’s artistry with language worldwide recognition.

Previously unseen journals, letters, sketches and more from the vast personal archive of Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen is renowned the world over for his meditations on beauty, death, loss and the human heart. The objects, papers and artifacts from Cohen's personal archive provide fresh insight into the artist's creative pursuits and the arc of his career over six decades. Aware from an early age that he was destined to make a mark on this world, Cohen preserved an expansive collection of letters, journals, manuscripts, sketches and records. Together, they provide a rich visual road map to his evolution as a poet and songwriter.
The first publication to present the holdings of the Leonard Cohen Family Trust, Everybody Knows: Inside His Archive immerses readers in the many facets of Cohen's creative life. Images of rare concert footage and archival materials, including musical instruments, notebooks, lyrics and letters, are featured alongside photographs, drawings and digital art created by Cohen across several decades.
Leonard Cohen (1934-2016) was a Canadian poet, singer-songwriter and novelist. Born and educated in Montreal, Cohen began his artistic career in 1956 with the publication of his first book of poetry, Let Us Compare Mythologies. Over his long and productive career, he published two novels, The Favourite Game (1963) and Beautiful Losers (1966), and numerous books of poetry, including Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs (1993). He recorded more than a dozen music albums, and numerous tribute albums have celebrated his songs in various languages. He died in Los Angeles in 2016 and was secretly buried in Montreal a few days later.