Goblin Leonard Cohen

June 19, 2025

Miguel Barrero (Oviedo, 1980), author of extensive narration and research work, likes to physically mention his stories. In the “guitarist Montreal”, after mapping the space of the Canadian city through thorough personification and descriptions, he will introduce us to another point of his microcosm to place the characters: an unknown woman, Spanish Gypsy still unnamed and the same Leonard Cohen.

Already installed in the landscape of the novel: Who was Betty Yee Toye, whose name appears on the bank of the bank near Belmont Avenue, what function he plays in a narration that was a gypsy who could sit in the same bank he thanked him. The letters.

Unchangable reactions are exactly the essence of literature, because they need imagination capable of activating historical, biographical and psychological knowledge that assembled and molten words helps to define diffuse logic derived from reality that we believe we know. Because, as Miguel Barrero writes, “(C) is never no one to depict or describe the facts that are revealed decisive,” who is devoted to literature, gains legitimacy to choose between “hundreds or thousands of options” that are presented to him.

Thus, Distributed in Four Parts: “599 Belmont Avenue”, “Letter and Music”, “Guitar Classes in Isolation Times” and “The Guitarist of Montreal”, Barrero Familiarizes US With the History of the City Included, and with the family genealogy of Leonard Cohen, rooted in emigration from Lithuania in the nineteenth Century, in Search of better life.

It will be a teenage Cohen to create a union connection that will be indestructible, between Canada and Spain, among the first verse reads, Federico Garcia LorcaThis affects him to the point that he is one of the engines of his own poetry and his own life, because he will give his daughter the name Lorca. This literary and vital fusion is strengthened by three classes of guitar received from the Spanish gypsy, which they eventually call “Hispanic”, and those compasses that Cohen admits that “they are the basis of all their songs”.

In the novel the words singer -songwriter are collected in an interview with Constantino Romero Published in the magazine “Vibration”: “Lorca has changed my way of being and thinking radically.

Barrero acknowledges that “he walks slowly and tries to capture every detail to rebuild it later,” and this way leads him to experience his experience with the guitar during pandemic imprisonment to review Lorka’s murder and subsequent use of his work. That “Hispanic” would commit suicide before passing the fourth grade to leave in the air with his possible future glory as a friend and mentor Cohen, who would soon be recognized as a musician and writer, and add his name to the unknown list of valid people that no one will remember.

“Montreal guitarist” is a new chronicle, with specific data and places that give him a patina of truth, and is also another aspect of Leonard Cohen’s biography, his discography and his relationship with Spain, raising questions without a definitive reaction to the art of novelty.