12-28-2016, 04:02 AM
I like the way the numbers don't run in progression. Also, for me, #1, Duino Castle, is the strongest, but maybe because for me, Rilke's work is transcendental. In #3 I can hear Joanie Mitchell. #2 is interesting, because I don't know which Fanni you mean, but think it's maybe Fanni Gyarmati, the wife of Miklós Radnóti, who died towards the end of WWII during a death march in a forced labour camp. And of course #0 is Leonard Cohen.
The common thread is, of course, protest against war, but also shows glimpses of what more we, as humans, are capable of.
So far they don't sit easily together, for me, but this is definitely worth working further into. I think Leonard Cohen's work is more worthy of a Nobel Prize for literature than Dylan's, though I admire both writers.
The common thread is, of course, protest against war, but also shows glimpses of what more we, as humans, are capable of.
So far they don't sit easily together, for me, but this is definitely worth working further into. I think Leonard Cohen's work is more worthy of a Nobel Prize for literature than Dylan's, though I admire both writers.