Lecture by Professor Vrasidas Karalis
In 1959, Leonard Cohen, the young unknown then musician and poet from Canada, went for the first time to the Greek island of Hydra where his spent the next decade and where he wrote some of his most popular and emblematic songs. The lecture explores his residence on the island, his contact with the local population and the special form of cultural cosmopolitanism his inaugurated that became a global movement in the next decades. After he moved out, Cohen visited Hydra almost till the end of his life and always stressed that “his education in the world” started on that small island. The lecture attempts a brief assessment of his legend and artistic legacy by discussing his life and interactions with the locals and his memories from the island.
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