Henri Hell, pseudonym for José Enrique Lasry (30 October 1916 – 6 April 1991) was a French art, music and literary critic, as well as a

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

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'', '' la Table Ronde'', '' l'Express'', '' Nouvel Observateur'', ''

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'', the '' Nouvelle Revue Française''. He assisted Max-Pol Fouchet in the management of the magazine ''Fontaine''. He was a music critic at '' la Revue Musicale'', '' Nouveau Candide'', ''la Table Ronde'', the '' Gazette de Lausanne'', ''

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''. He directed the Fayard publishing house. Finally, he published a reference book on Francis Poulenc at the same house.See Fayard
/ref> He was also an art columnist.

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 * Correspondence with René Étiemble * Correspondence with François Nourissier * 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