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Bernard-Henri Lévy
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Bernard-Henri Lévy is one of France's leading philosophers and one of
the most esteemed writers in Europe. After starting his career as a war
reporter for Combat, the
legendary newspaper founded by Albert Camus during the Nazi occupation
of France, Lévy became famous as the founder of the New Philosophers
group.
Lévy is the author of 30 books, including works of
philosophy, fiction, and biography and is an activist and filmmaker.
His books include Barbarism with a Human Face, Reflections on War, Century of Sartre, Evil and the End of History, Who Killed Daniel Pearl?, and American Vertigo (forthcoming in January 2006). His films include the documentaries Bosna! and A Day in the Death of Sarajevo.
Lévy is co-founder of the antiracist group SOS Racism and has served on
diplomatic missions for the French government, most recently heading a
fact finding mission to Afghanistan in the wake of the war against the
Taliban.
During 2005 Bernard-Henri Lévy traveled throughout the
United States in the footsteps of another great Frenchman, Alexis de
Tocqueville, whose Democracy in America remains the most influential book ever written about our country. The result is his new book, American Vertigo,
a fascinating, fresh look at a country we sometimes only think we know.
Through interview-based portraits across the spectrum of the American
people, from prison guards to clergymen, from a strip bar in Vegas to
the Mayo Clinic, from Norman Mailer to Barack Obama, from Sharon Stone
to Richard Holbrooke, both the grandeur and the hellish dimensions of
American life are unflinchingly explored.
>> Listen to Bernard-Henri Lévy speak at "Literature and Power,"
a panel discussion from the 2005 PEN World Voices Festival.
>> See Bernard-Henri Lévy's author page from the 2005 PEN World Voices Festival.
>> Read excerpts from Levy's comments at the 2003 PEN event "Mind the Gap," reproduced in the PEN literary journal.
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