The Impostor by Lindgaard, Jade -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Preface: Who’s Afraid of BHL? 1. The Pope of Saint-Germain-des-Prés

The soirée at the Flore: a cartography of debtors BHL the celeb BHL the publisher BHL the diarist

2. An Impressive Network of Influence

BHL the prince of advisers BHL and Ségolène Royal: ‘adviser to the princess’ BHL against, up close against, Nicolas Sarkozy BHL the businessman BHL the film producer BHL the newspaperman BHL the networker

3. In Search of the Lost Oeuvre

The catalogue Using ‘BHL’: supply and demand Strategies for fabricating the semblance of an oeuvre Whence the pies (statement from le Gloupier)

4. Birth of an Imposture

The flowering of New Philosophers in the media Confessions of the child of a barbaric century Me, myself, I Smashing ’68 How BHL missed the Solzhenitsyn event Television and the ‘market environment’ Publishing and the logic of the ‘coup’ New Philosophy: philosopher-proof The confessions of Jacques Derrida

5. The World Is My Spectacle

6. The Murder of Daniel Pearl: How It Was Commandeered by BHL

A whole year? Agent Bennett’s doubts ‘Faction’: an object of (almost) unanimous admiration Fake scoops in the devil’s house ‘You don’t put words into the mind of a dying man’ Incomprehension: Bernard-Henri Lévy and Omar Sheikh The ‘cause of truth’, or the book’s central thesis thrown into doubt Bankruptcy of the French media

7. Waging War for Democracy

Fascism everywhere, especially in Islamism ‘We will all be Yugoslavs!’ Darfur: all united against the ‘Islamist militia’ Iran: revolution by proxy Libya: muscular humanitarianism A method

8. Is Bernard-Henri Lévy Left-Wing?

The art of testifying against your own side The world as one giant bordello A friend to Israel

9. The Nightmare of Endless New Beginnings

The decline in sales Little-loved public enemies The Botul affair, or, philosophy down the toilet Bernard-Henri Lévy, beaten at his own game

10. BHL Worldwide

American Vertigo, 2006: a French triumph The BHL operation sets up shop in America BHL 2.0

Conclusion: The Ridiculousness of Power Epilogue Notes