Din his fiftieth book, sleepless night (Grasset), Bernard Henri-Lévy considers that “ to sleep is already to die a little “. For more than fifty years, the hyperactive author has done everything not to disappear. Objective achieved if we are to believe its constant presence in The World for half a century: no less than 1,539 occurrences under his surname or under his famous initials, “BHL”, distributed between portraits, reviews of his books or films, columns, interviews and even some signed reports of his name in the newspaper, where the famous intellectual was a member of the supervisory board from November 2010 to June 2022.
The first time that The World wrote Bernard Henri-Lévy dates back to January 30, 1973. The young man, presented as “former student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure” and daily journalist Combat, accompanies the author Jean-Edern Hallier, already a fan of controversies, on the television show “Italiques”. A show to which they are no longer invited and which they must leave under police protection.
-The same year, on April 26, the evening daily reported on the sluggish beginnings of the young intellectual’s career. In the review of his first work, on the birth of Bangladesh, the article emphasizes that “Mr. Lévy made several regrettable errors and contradictions”. Two years later, on January 25, 1975, The World announces that the writer, who adopted “a certain very Rocardian way of catching one’s breath in the middle of a word and accelerating the last syllables”, launches, with family money, a new daily newspaper called The Unexpected. Due to lack of readers, publication will stop after eleven days.
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