'''Henri Hell''', pseudonym for José Enrique Lasry (30 October 1916 – 6 April 1991) was a French art, music and literary critic, as well as a musicologist.

As a literary critic, Henri Hell collaborated with ''{{ill|Fontaine (revue)|fr|3=Fontaine (revue)|lt=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.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.fayard.fr/francis-poulenc-9782213006703 |title=See Fayard |access-date=2016-12-29 |archive-date=2015-12-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151227101745/http://www.fayard.fr/francis-poulenc-9782213006703 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He was also an art columnist.

== Bibliography == *1944: ''La France au cœur : Chroniques de la servitude et de la libération, juin 1940–juin 1943'', foreword to the work by Max-Pol Fouchet *1956: ''L'amour vagabond'', contribution to the novel by {{ill|André Fraigneau|fr}}, Paris, Plon *1957: ''Les Élus du Seigneur'', French translation of ''Go Tell It on the Mountain'' by James Baldwin *1958: ''Francis Poulenc, musicien français'', Plon, Fayard, 1978. [https://archive.org/details/francispoulenc00hell Read online in English] *1962: ''L'univers romanesque de Marguerite Duras'' *1990: ''Un regard'', preface of the work by Stephen Spender * Correspondence with René Étiemble * Correspondence with François Nourissier * Correspondence with Francis Poulenc, 1951

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