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French literary critic, music critic and musicologist
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Male
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Birth:
1916(Caracas, Libertador, Capital District, Venezuela)
Death:
1991(Louveciennes, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France)
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Biography
Introduction
Henri Hell, pseudonym for José Enrique Lasry (1916 – April 1991) was a French art, music and literary critic, as well as a musicologist.
Biography
As a literary critic, Henri Hell collaborated with Fontaine, Combat, la Table Ronde, l'Express, Nouvel Observateur, Le Monde, 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, Mercure de France. He directed the Fayard publishing house. Finally, he published a reference book on Francis Poulenc at the same house. He was also an art columnist.