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Here is a tremendous review of Bernard-Henri Levy's biography. How did it come about, we want to know, that BHL has made himself France’s eternally angry, eternally young man, even though he is now well over fifty? He is described, if ironically, as the Pico della Mirandola de nos jours, the only person capable of having the last word on all the big questions of the moment. He has made himself “the quasi-official successor of Sartre and Malraux, figures whom he has ‘appropriated’ in his work . . . . He is the writer in the eyes of those millions of readers without books . . . who cannot extract themselves from their one-to-three hours of television each day”. The laurels and the millstone are indistinguishable in the author’s effusive denunciation. http://www.the-tls.co.uk/this_week/story.aspx?story_id=2110265