The last album of Leonard Cohen as a text testament

Leonard Norman Cohen (1934-2016) is peculiar among singer-songwriters. His last album “You Want it Darker” may be characterized by a definite line of moves of the recipient and it’s results. That's why the investigator has three text units corresponding to three phases of reception:1) name of the author / title of the album / names of the tracks making the whole text massive terminated as “preliminary text “ (“pretext”);2) combination of songs as an indiscrete text massive marked as a “global text” (“macrotext”);3) text of one song with deep “in-reading” for the actualization of implicit author’s senses, messages.Such texts may be more than one. But the recipient always concentrates upon one of them, and this central unit is named conditionally a “text of a song”.The reception of the album is completed at this phase, and independent reception of the recipient begins or continues simultaneously. Accordingly, works by L. Cohen may be learned as a global context including all albums, poetic collections and prose. Albums are the basic object because Cohen is famous as a singer first place. Yet each album is connected with another one, because it is characterizes by a theme relationship, succession of ideas, sense connections. Each album is a complicated structure, communicative sign of integral essence, and it is actualized on different levels of reception. The last album of Cohen is addressed not to a limited category of recipients, but to the whole mankind as a wishing for everybody to choose their own decision.