Henri Hell, pseudonym for José Enrique Lasry (1916 – April 1991) was a French art, music and literary critic, as well as a

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Biography

As a literary critic, Henri Hell collaborated with ', '' Combat'', ''

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''. He assisted in the management of the magazine ''Fontaine''. He was a music critic at ''

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'', '' Nouveau Candide'', ''la Table Ronde'', the ''

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''. He directed the

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publishing house. Finally, he published a reference book on Francis Poulenc at the same house.See Fayard
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Bibliography

*1944: ''La France au cœur : Chroniques de la servitude et de la libération, juin 1940–juin 1943'', foreword to the work by Max-Pol Fouchet *1956: ''L'amour vagabond'', contribution to the novel by , Paris, Plon *1957: ''Les Élus du Seigneur'', French translation of '' Go Tell It on the Mountain'' by James Baldwin *1958: ''Francis Poulenc, musicien français'', Plon, Fayard, 1978
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*1962: ''L'univers romanesque de Marguerite Duras'' *1990: ''Un regard'', preface of the work by

Stephen Spender Sir Stephen Harold Spender (28 February 1909 – 16 July 1995) was an English poet, novelist and essayist whose work concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry by th ...

* Correspondence with

René Étiemble René Ernest Joseph Eugène Étiemble (26 January 1909 in Mayenne, Mayenne – 7 January 2002 in Vigny) was an essayist, scholar, novelist, and promoter of Middle Eastern and Asian cultures. Known commonly by his family name alone, Etiemble h ...

* Correspondence with

François Nourissier François Nourissier (Paris, 18 May 1927–Paris, 15 February 2011) was a French journalist and writer. Nourissier was the secretary-general of Éditions Denoël (1952–1955), editor of the review ''La Parisienne'' (1955–1958), and an adviser ...

* Correspondence with Francis Poulenc, 1951

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hell, Henri French literary critics French art critics French music critics 20th-century French musicologists 20th-century French journalists 1916 births 1991 deaths