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"美麗失敗者" 內容簡介：我要對著教條微笑，但是誓死反對它
‧六○年代夏天，希臘小島海德拉。
年輕的李歐納‧科恩在這裡就著海風露天寫作，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，一根煙渡過一個漫長的午后。在這個天光充盈的拜占庭，他完成了這部六○年代氣味濃烈，而又具體呈現人類存在處境的作品。

愛與性的渴求與失落，欲望與受苦，墮落與救贖。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，試圖傳遞秘而不宣的信息給他猶在人間的朋友……

這是一個愛的故事，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。李歐納‧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。

Leonard Norman Cohen, CC, GOQ (born 21 September 1934) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963. His work often explores religion, isolation, sexuality and interpersonal relationships.[1] Famously reclusive,[2] having once spent several years in a Zen Buddhist monastery, and possessing a persona frequently associated with mystique, he is extremely well regarded by critics for his literary accomplishments, for the richness of his lyrics, and for producing an output of work of high artistic quality over a five-decade career.

Musically, Cohen's earliest songs (many of which appeared on the 1967 album, Songs of Leonard Cohen) were rooted in European folk music. In the 1970s, his material encompassed pop, cabaret and world music. Since the 1980s, his high baritone voice has dipped into lower registers (bass baritone and bass), with accompaniment from a wide variety of instruments and female backup singers.

Over 2,000 renditions of Cohen's songs have been recorded. Cohen has been inducted into both the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame and is also a Companion of the Order of Canada, the nation's highest civilian honour. While giving the speech at Cohen's induction into the American Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on 10 March 2008, Lou Reed described Cohen as belonging to the "highest and most influential echelon of songwriters."

From May 2008 to December 2010, Cohen was on the major comeback world tour, the biggest in his musical career, giving 246 shows in Europe, Australia, Canada, Israel and United States. The highly successful tour was followed with two live albums, Live in London and Songs from the Road in both audio and DVD versions, and with many reissues, unauthorised releases of album compilations, DVDs, biographies and books reprints, and as well many international translations of his books and international awards and nominations (such as Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Meteor Music Awards in Ireland, Porin Award in Croatia, Songwriters Hall of Fame, Polaris Music Prize, and Mojo Honours Lists). In 2011 he received the Glenn Gould Prize and Spain's Prince of Asturias award. Currently he is working on a new album which will possibly be released in late 2011

墮落時期的歌

Leonard Cohen - Suzanne

"Suzanne" is a song written by Canadian poet and musician Leonard Cohen in the 1960s, and often heard in a recording by Judy Collins. It has become one of the most-covered songs in Cohen's catalogue.

In 2006, Pitchfork Media listed the song #41 on their list of 'The Top Songs of the 1960s'.[2]
Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river
You can hear the boats go by
You can spend the night beside her
And you know that she's half crazy
But that's why you want to be there
And she feeds you tea and oranges
That come all the way from China
And just when you mean to tell her
That you have no love to give her
Then she gets you on her wavelength
And she lets the river answer
That you've always been her lover
And you want to travel with her
And you want to travel blind
And you know that she will trust you
For you've touched her perfect body with your mind.

And Jesus was a sailor
When he walked upon the water
And he spent a long time watching
From his lonely wooden tower
And when he knew for certain
Only drowning men could see him
He said "All men will be sailors then
Until the sea shall free them"
But he himself was broken
Long before the sky would open
Forsaken, almost human
He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone
And you want to travel with him
And you want to travel blind
And you think maybe you'll trust him
For he's touched your perfect body with his mind.

Now Suzanne takes your hand
And she leads you to the river
She is wearing rags and feathers
From Salvation Army counters
And the sun pours down like honey
On our lady of the harbour
And she shows you where to look
Among the garbage and the flowers
There are heroes in the seaweed
There are children in the morning
They are leaning out for love
And they will lean that way forever
While Suzanne holds the mirror
And you want to travel with her
And you want to travel blind
And you know that you can trust her
For she's touched your perfect body with her mind.