Bernard-Henri Lévy trapped by a literary hoax

French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy has admitted being trapped, in mentioning in one of his last books, the work of a certain Jean-Baptiste Botul, fictional writer created by a journalist of a satirical weekly.

•    In his book "On War in philosophy" (Grasset), containing a text he had spoken to students at the prestigious Ecole Nationale Superieure, Bernard-Henri Lévy cites Botul supposedly specialist of Immanuel Kant and alleged author of "conferences with the neo-Kantians of Paraguay." 
  
     Bernard-Henri Lévy admitted Monday night to have often quoted "The Sexual Life of Immanuel Kant" book presented as the work of botul. "Now it turns out that it was a hoax," he acknowledged on the website of his magazine The Rules of the Game. 
  
     "A very brilliant and very credible hoax that comes out of the brain of a journalist of « Le Canard Enchaine, » moreover good philosopher," said BHL. "And so I have been trapped, as have been trapped the critics who have identified him at the time of its release," he says. "So, one thing to say with good heart. so long the Artist!" Concludes Bernard-Henri Lévy. 
  
     Frédéric Pagès, journalist for the satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaine and creator of the fictional author, presents Botul as someone born in 1896 and died in 1947, philosopher of oral tradition originating in the Aude (southern France), father of " Botulism "who left no formal written work. 
  
     However, the work of Jean-Baptiste Botul "exists" and it has indeed been published, recalled Monday in a statement his French publisher, Editions « Mille et Une Nuits, » and the Association of Friends of Jean-Baptiste Botul (A2JB2 for friends), chaired by Frédéric Pagès.
  
  
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