ReLIRE
The BnF has just put on its site the Register of unavailable works of the 20th century. I therefore had the unpleasant surprise of finding that four of the works to which I had contributed in the past century are now liable to be digitally reproduced and collectively managed by an approved society, such as SOFIA.
I am not dead! wrote André de Richaud in a magnificent opuscule published by Robert Morel in 1965. I immediately manifested my existence by the following letter, sent by registered mail to whom it may concern:
Declaration on honor attesting the quality of author of the book
Article R 134-5 paragraph 2 of the Intellectual Property Code
I, the undersigned, Madame, Monsieur (cross out the unnecessary mention)
Name: Béhar
First name(s): Henri
born on xx May 19xx
Pseudonym(s) or name of use
Residing at: xxxxxxxxxxx, Vxxxxxxxx
Telephone xx xx xx xx xx
declare and attest on honor to be the author of the book(s) listed below:
Book 1
Literary History Today / under the dir. of Henri Béhar,… and Roger Fayolle,…
Author(s): Henri Béhar
Other Author(s): Henri Béhar. Publication Director
Roger Fayolle (year of death: 2006). Publication Director
Publisher(s): A. Colin
Date of edition: 1990
Description: 187 p.; ill., cover ill.
ISBN: 2-200-37186-1
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Book 2
Dés-lyre / Roger Vitrac: complete poems; presented and annotated by Henri Béhar
Author(s): Roger Vitrac
Other Author(s): Henri Béhar. Scientific Editor
Publisher(s): Gallimard
Date of edition: 1964
Description: 221 p.
ISBN: 2-07-026574-9
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Book 3
Paul, Max and the others: Paul Éluard and the surrealists / texts by Charles Harroche, Raymond Jean, Henri Béhar; under the dir. of Sylvie Gonzalez
Author(s): Charles Haroche
Raymond Jean (year of death: 2012)
Henri Béhar
Other Author(s): Sylvie Gonzalez. Publication Director
Publisher(s): Éd. de l'Albaron; Museum of Art and History
Date of edition: 1993
Description: 155 p.; ill. in black and color, cover ill.
ISBN: 2-908528-32-0
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Book 4
Thematic analysis of textual data: the example of feelings; dir. by François Rastier,…; publ. by Éveline Martin,…; with the collab. of Henri Béhar and Michel Bernard, Évelyne Bourion… [et al.]
Other Author(s): François Rastier. Publication Director
Éveline Martin. Scientific Editor
Publisher(s): Didier Érudition
Date of edition: 1995
Description: 282 p.; graphs.
Collection: Lexical Semantics Studies
ISBN: 2-86460-244-X
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See the article "The nebula of feelings"
I am aware that a false attestation would expose me to criminal penalties* and may be produced for the needs of justice.
Made to serve and be worth what is right.
At Vxxxxxx on 03/27/2013
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In truth, each item reported requires a comment.
Literary History Today, which Roger Fayolle and I had directed and published at Armand Colin in 1990, was pulped by the publisher, who had returned our rights to us. Besides the fact that I still have a few copies in good condition, you will find my digitized contribution below. Do not hesitate to write to me if the work interests you.
Roger Vitrac, Dés-Lyre, complete poems, text established, presented and annotated by me. I cannot believe that Gallimard editions have given up offering the public the works of this author, which are not limited to the surrealist drama Victor or The Children in Power. I therefore wrote to them to observe the terms of the contract.
Paul, Max and the others: Paul Éluard and the surrealists, is a collective catalog directed by the director of the Saint-Denis Museum, published by Éditions de l'Albaron in 1993, publishing exclusively with public credits, whose name rhymes infallibly with Larron. I do not know what Sylvie Gonzalez plans to do, who did not manifest herself when the work was pulped. For my part, I keep a few copies, and you will find my contribution under the title "Paul Eluard, at the rendezvous of friends" in my collection The Lost Children, at L'Age d'Homme editions, 2002, p. 53-62.
"The Nebula of Feelings", article written in collaboration with Michel Bernard at the request of Eveline Martin has been taken up in: Henri Béhar, Literature and its Golem, Champion, 2000, p. 75-108.
March 28, 2013
Henri Béhar