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...incident with rare self-deprecating humor. In a TV interview, he confessed that he had found the spoof book on Kant "astonishing" and the fictitious Botul "a very good philosopher." And on his website, titled The Rules of the Game, which is owned by his book publisher, Grasset, he admitted that he had been completely duped by Botul. "He has tried to be smart and funny," says Assouline. "It's all nonsense. He was clearly annoyed." Meanwhile, Grasset has refused requests from journalists to explain how the error crept into the book...
...ranging from influence peddling and embezzlement to illegal party funding and bribery. The judicial independence evident in this sweeping cleanup is one of the most striking aspects of the new France; such investigations would have been quashed under the old system. Says Olivier Nora, head of France's prestigious Grasset publishing house: "There is a rise in the sense of ethics and a general impression of corruption...
...group's most publicized-and most pessimistic-member is Bernard-Henri Lévy, 28, a long-tressed editor at the Paris publishing house of Grasset who coined the term New Philosophers. In his hot-selling polemic, Barbarism with a Human Face, Lévy attacks the promises of Marxism as empty. "Revolution is a myth," he says, pointing to the Soviet Union; instead of "withering away," as Marx predicted, the state has grown into a monstrous "reactionary machine." Lévy blames the persistence of Marxist ideas in France on the thinkers of the French Enlightenment, who paved...
Died. Bernard Grasset, 74, onetime topflight French book publisher (Giraudoux, Maurois, Mauriac) who was paid by Marcel Proust to print Swann's Way in 1913, after Proust had looked in vain for a publisher; after long illness; in Paris. Convicted in 1948 of collaboration with the Nazis, Grasset was fined 10,000 francs, sentenced to "national degradation for life...
...directive from Dr. Grasset, "minister [of health] by the grace of Hitler," says that Frenchmen to be sent to Germany need not be examined carefully as to general health and aptitude-a cursory once-over will do because those who are not very fit can be used as ticket punchers, etc. Le Medicin warns its doctor readers not to let Dr. Grasset lure them into passing any tubercular or mentally deficient people. Once in Germany, they would meet certain death...