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So Long, Marianne: quién fue la mujer que inspiró una de las canciones más recordadas de Leonard Cohen
En la década de 1960, la isla griega de Hidra era un refugio para artistas, escritores y bohemios que buscaban inspiración lejos de las grandes ciudades. Entre sus casas blancas y aguas turquesa, un joven poeta canadiense, Leonard Cohen, encontró algo más que un paisaje idílico: conoció a Marianne Ihlen, la mujer que marcaría su vida y daría origen a una de sus canciones más emblemáticas, So Long, Marianne.
Cohen había llegado a la isla tras un tiempo en Londres, donde el clima y el ambiente no le ofrecían el estímulo que buscaba para completar su primera novela. En Hidra, la vida transcurría con un ritmo lento, entre tertulias, veladas musicales y largas jornadas de escritura. Marianne, de origen noruego, vivía allí con su hijo Axel tras separarse de su marido, el escritor Axel Jensen. Según recordó el propio Cohen en testimonios recogidos por ABC, la comunidad parecía cubierta de “polvo de oro”, una sensación propia de la juventud, pero amplificada por la belleza del lugar.
El vínculo entre Cohen y Marianne fue inmediato. Ella le ofreció un espacio de calma para que desarrollara su escritura, mientras él cantaba canciones de cuna a su hijo y pasaba las mañanas trabajando en sus textos. En palabras citadas por Far Out Magazine, Ihlen fue para Cohen una verdadera musa, una figura que le permitió transformar su poesía en canciones y que inspiró piezas como Bird on a Wire y la ya mencionada So Long, Marianne.
En Hidra compartieron una vida sencilla, sin lujos, pero llena de creatividad. Cohen, que por entonces no pensaba en una carrera musical, escribía poesía y novelas con una disciplina diaria. Marianne se ocupaba de las tareas cotidianas y del cuidado de su hijo, sosteniendo un entorno en el que el poeta podía concentrarse en su obra. En declaraciones al medio español ABC, ella recordaba esos años como “absolutamente fabulosos”, marcados por el amor, la escritura y la libertad.
La relación, sin embargo, comenzó a cambiar cuando Cohen inició su carrera como cantautor. El éxito de canciones como Suzanne, que Judy Collins incorporó a su repertorio, lo llevó a escenarios internacionales. Con la fama llegaron las giras, el contacto constante con el público y una vida rodeada de excesos que lo alejaba cada vez más de Hidra y de Marianne. Según La Vanguardia, lo que antes eran meses juntos se redujo a semanas, luego a días.
Cohen admitió en entrevistas que parte de su vida consistió en escapar. Marianne, por su parte, nunca se integró del todo en el ritmo frenético del músico. Aunque su relación sentimental terminó, ambos mantuvieron contacto intermitente durante décadas, a través de encuentros esporádicos y cartas. Parte de esa correspondencia salió a la luz en subastas recientes, revelando un vínculo que, pese a la distancia y el tiempo, nunca se rompió del todo.
Uno de los momentos más recordados que ilustra la influencia de Marianne ocurrió en 1970, en el Festival de la Isla de Wight. En plena actuación y con miles de personas frente a él, Cohen mencionó su nombre antes de interpretar So Long, Marianne. Era un gesto que, según ABC, parecía dirigido directamente a ella, incluso en medio del caos de una época marcada por drogas, giras y relaciones fugaces.
La canción, incluida en su álbum Songs of Leonard Cohen de 1967, se convirtió en un himno sobre el amor y la separación. Su letra mezcla nostalgia, gratitud y dolor, y fue interpretada por críticos y seguidores como un retrato honesto de la relación que ambos vivieron. Para Cohen, Marianne representaba un ideal de inspiración y libertad, pero también un amor que no podía sostenerse en las circunstancias que le impuso su carrera.
En julio de 2016, Marianne Ihlen falleció en Noruega a causa de una leucemia. Días antes de su muerte, recibió una carta de Cohen que se haría pública más tarde. En ella, el músico le escribió: “Estoy tan cerca detrás de ti que si extiendes tu mano, creo que puedes alcanzar la mía. Siempre te he amado por tu belleza y tu sabiduría… Buen viaje, vieja amiga. Te veré al final del camino”. Tres meses después, Cohen murió en Los Ángeles, cumpliendo de algún modo la promesa de que no tardaría en seguirla.
La historia de Leonard Cohen y Marianne Ihlen fue llevada al cine y la televisión en varias ocasiones. El documental Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love (2019) exploró su relación desde sus inicios hasta el final de sus vidas, mientras que la serie So Long, Marianne, estrenada en 2023 dramatiza su romance y los traslados que realizaron a lo largo de una década: de Hidra a Oslo, de Montreal a Londres, hasta la separación definitiva en Nueva York.
Más de medio siglo después, la figura de Marianne sigue ligada a la obra de Cohen. Su historia conjunta trascendió lo personal para convertirse en parte de la mitología de la música popular, en un ejemplo de cómo la vida y el arte pueden entrelazarse de forma inseparable. El eco de So Long, Marianne aún resuena en conciertos, homenajes y grabaciones, como un testimonio perdurable de un amor que, aunque imposible, dejó una huella profunda en la cultura y en la memoria de quienes siguen escuchando la voz de Leonard Cohen.
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Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett knows how to command an audience.
This was crystallized Monday night at the Swissotel in Chicago, where she spoke for just three minutes to several hundred judges and legal professionals gathered for the Seventh Circuit Judicial Conference.
Her remarks, though short, were optimistic and warm. She urged the courts to keep their sense of «camaraderie and professionalism» despite inevitable, sharp disagreements. This, she said, is «what enables the judicial system to work well.»
Barrett smiled fondly as she remembered her time on the 7th Circuit, where she served for several years prior to her nomination to the Supreme Court. She introduced the next speaker, who took the stage to another standing ovation.
And just as quickly as she entered the packed ballroom, she was gone.
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Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett delivers remarks at the 2025 Seventh Circuit Judicial Conference at the Swissotel Chicago on Aug. 18, 2025. (Breanne Deppisch/Fox News Digital)
As the youngest justice on the bench, Barrett’s ideology over her nearly five-term tenure on the Supreme Court has been the subject of furious speculation, and at times, just plain fury.
Conservatives have panned her record as more moderate than that of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, for whom she once clerked. Liberals have been incensed by her reluctance to side more consistently with the court’s left-leaning justices on abortion, federal powers and other seminal cases.
Barrett’s voting record is more moderate than Scalia’s, according to a June New York Times data analysis that found she plays an «increasingly central role» on the court.
Barrett used her time on Monday to implore the group of judges to maintain a sense of grace, decorum, and respect for colleagues, despite the inevitable, heated disagreements that will occur.
The warm, if somewhat lofty, sense of idealism on display is one that is expected to be echoed further in her forthcoming memoir, «Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and Constitution,» slated for publication next month.
The theme of Monday’s remarks, to the extent there was one, stressed working toward common goals, accepting ideological differences and embracing disagreement while keeping a broader perspective — a point echoed by Barrett and earlier speakers, who cited David Brooks repeatedly in praising purpose-driven public service.
The upside of so many hours spent in disagreement, Barrett said, is learning how to strike that balance.
«We know how to argue well,» she said. «We also know how to argue without letting it consume relationships.»
CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS SOUNDS ALARM ON DANGEROUS RHETORIC AIMED AT JUDGES FROM POLITICIANS
The view from the 2025 Seventh Circuit Judicial Conference at the Swissotel Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, on Aug 18, 2025. Justice Amy Coney Barrett delivered brief remarks to attendees. (Breanne Deppisch/Fox News)
This has been especially true during Trump’s second term, as the Supreme Court presided over a record blitz of emergency appeals and orders filed by the administration and other aggrieved parties in response to the hundreds of executive orders signed in his first months in office.
The high court has ruled in Trump’s favor in the majority of emergency applications, allowing the administration to proceed with its ban on transgender service members in the military, its termination of millions of dollars in Education Department grants and its firing of probationary employees across the federal government, among many other actions.
Even so, it is Barrett who has emerged as the most-talked-about justice on the high court this term, confounding and frustrating observers as they tried and failed to predict how she would vote.
She’s been hailed as the «most interesting justice on the bench,» a «trailblazer,» and an iconoclast, among other things.
But on Monday, she stressed that the commonalities among judges, both for the 7th Circuit and beyond, are far greater than what issues divide them.
As for her own work, Barrett offered few details — her remarks began and ended in less time than it takes to microwave a burrito.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett attends U.S. President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on March 04, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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It’s unclear if, or to what extent, Barrett’s schedule may have changed at the eleventh hour — a reflection of the many demands placed on sitting Supreme Court justices, whose schedules are often subject to change or cancellation at a moment’s notice.
The 7th Circuit did not immediately respond to Fox News’s questions as to what, if anything, had changed on Barrett’s end.
Questions swirled as she exited. Had she planned longer remarks? Was the agenda misread? Or is she saving details for her memoir and looming book tour, as one reporter suggested?
Her appearance, full of irony, left observers with more questions than answers. Whether she addresses them in the weeks ahead remains to be seen.
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Anti-corruption protests rocked the Serbian capital of Belgrade as student-led demonstrators clashed with supporters of President Aleksandar Vucic and his political party, demanding new elections.
Violent clashes between anti-government protesters and Serbian security forces have intensified over the last week, with protesters setting fire to an office building belonging to the ruling party in Novi Sad.
«You will see the full determination of the Serbian state. We will use everything at our disposal to restore law, peace and order,» President Vucic said in an address to the nation Saturday night.
SERBIA ROCKED BY ANTI-CORRUPTION PROTESTS AFTER CONSTRUCTION TRAGEDY
Demonstrators stand in clouds of tear gas during anti-government protests in Belgrade on August 16. (Oliver Bunic/AFP via Getty Images)
Tens of thousands of college students have been marching and protesting since December, demanding justice and accountability after the deaths of 16 people in the collapse of a railway station in the Serbian town of Novi Sad. The canopy at the railway station collapsed Nov. 1 after renovations led by two Chinese companies.
The government is accused of not implementing student demands, including the release of all documentation related to the reconstruction of the train station. In his speech, Vucic said that justice must be served for all those responsible for the 16 victims of the Novi Sad rail station collapse.
Critics have called out the heavy-handed response used against protesters. Alan Berset, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, said in a post on X that he was concerned with the rising violence.
Students and anti-government demonstrators light the flashlights of their mobile phones during a protest, which has become a national movement for change following the deadly November 2024 Novi Sad railway station roof collapse, in Belgrade, Serbia, March 15. (Igor Pavicevic/Reuters.)
SERBIA, CAUGHT BETWEEN EUROPE AND RUSSIA, COULD MOVE ONE STEP CLOSER TO NORMALIZING RELATIONS WITH KOSOVO
«I call for calm and respect of the right to peaceful assembly. Serbian authorities must uphold Council of Europe standards. The rule of law and respect for human rights must prevail,» Berset said.
Serbia’s foreign minister, Marko Djuric, responded to the criticism in a statement to Fox News Digital. «We respect and protect peaceful protest—it is part of our democratic fabric. But when demonstrations turn into physical attacks and attempts to destabilize the country, the government has both the right and the duty to respond.»
SERBIA, CAUGHT BETWEEN EUROPE AND RUSSIA, COULD MOVE ONE STEP CLOSER TO NORMALIZING RELATIONS WITH KOSOVO
«This is by far the biggest threat Vucic has faced in the last 13 years, and it is very unlikely that Vucic will weather the storm without elections,» Helena Ivanov, senior fellow at the Henry Jackson Society, told Fox News Digital.
«The country is not functioning, and the situation is dangerously escalating. The only way out of the problem is to hold free and fair elections as soon as possible. «Everything else will further destabilize the situation, which could have devastating consequences,» Ivanov added.
The government is accused of not fulfilling one of the original student demands, including the release of all documentation related to the reconstruction of the train station.
Serbian riot police clash with anti-government protesters in Belgrade on August 13. (Oliver Bunic/AFP via Getty Images)
What originally started as spontaneous protests voicing dissatisfaction with the government’s failed response to the railway catastrophe transformed into a movement opposing widespread corruption and the erosion of the rule of law under Vucic.
One of the largest protests in Serbia’s history took place on March 15, with nearly 350,000 people gathered in Slavija Square in central Belgrade.
Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York City in 2019. Vucic said he accidentally voted against Russia in a Ukrainian resolution because he was «probably tired.» (Reuters)
Serbia’s then-Prime Minister Milos Vucevic announced his resignation in January amid the nationwide protests, making him the most senior government member to step down.
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«Serbian students put forward several demands, the first and most important being the release of documentation regarding the reconstruction of the Novi Sad train station, where the collapse of the canopy killed 16 people. To this day, no one has been held accountable,» Filip Ubović, a student from the University of Belgrade and protest participant on the ground in Belgrade, told Fox News Digital.
Ubovic said the protests were originally aimed at influencing the institutions responsible for upholding the rule of law, and not directly against the ruling party. As the government failed to hold any officials accountable for the tragedy or release any information on the canopy collapse, the protesters realized that it was time to demand elections.
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