All about BHL
1989
1985 to 1989
In February, when the Imam Khomeini launches his fatwa against the British writer of Indian origin Salman Rushdie, Bernard-Henri Lévy is among the very first intellectuals to come out in support of the persecuted novelist. The struggle for and with Salman Rushdie will be a constant for BHL over the next fifteen years.
In the initial days following the fall of the Berlin Wall, the French Secretary of State responsible for international cultural affairs assigns Bernard-Henri Lévy a mission within the countries of central and eastern Europe liberated from Soviet rule: in Budapest, Berlin, Sofia, Warsaw and Bucarest, he explores the possibility of reinforcing the French presence and examines the feasibility of a European Academy of Cultures, for which he drew inspiration from a 1937 project by Franz Werfel. BHL’s inquiry seems to inspire François Mitterrand in his January 29, 1993, address given at the Louvre, inaugurating the Académie Universelle des Cultures.

(Français) Le 20 avril 1981...
(Français) BHL invité au Petit Journal de Noël, de Yann Barthès, Canal +
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