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Resources => Music [Public] => Topic started by: Michael on August 08, 2016, 09:13:32 AM
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https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/aug/07/so-long-marianne-leonard-cohen-writes-to-muse-just-before-her-death
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https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/aug/07/so-long-marianne-leonard-cohen-writes-to-muse-just-before-her-death
I can tell you this, about Marianne. She was a Swedish girl, and it was together with the Swedish authour Göran Tunström that Cohen got to know Marianne.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6ran_Tunstr%C3%B6m
Leonard Cohen has commented Tunströms deacese in Swedish newspapers.
Tunström wrote a very interesting book about Jesus and Johannes (the baptist) - both becoming apprentices o the Essenés, a book that had a great impact on me around 1980.
The Letter from the Wilderness (Swedish: Ökenbrevet, novel, 1978).
I shall check if there is a English version of that book.
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Tunström was raised in Sunne, Värmland.[1] He made his debut with the poetry collection Inringning in 1958.[1] In the late 1950s, he lived on the Greek island of Hydra and became friends with Leonard Cohen and the Norwegian author Axel Jensen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6ran_Tunstr%C3%B6m
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgEiDc1aXr0
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Is the title of Tunströms "Ökenbrevet" = the letter from the desert.
But I find no translated excerpts ...
I do not even find the translated book.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgEiDc1aXr0
I prefer the original myself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XzAjfwQtvM