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This is a very hot news of usa contry The power of language to curse, to do another person harm, is as ancient and as central to literary motivation as the power to praise or to bless. Ennemis Publics, a recent collection of letters exchanged between Michel Houellebecq, the histrionically nihilistic French novelist, and Bernard-Henri Lévy, an epically pompous public intellectual and media figure, revels in the oldest and nastiest of word games. At one point, Houellebecq describes Lévy as "a master of the damp squib and the farcical media hype ... a philosopher without thought but not without connections." And that's just for starters. Just to make sure Lévy isn't under the misapprehension that Houellebecq only knows about his journalism, he rounds off the attack with a strong grasp of the details of his enemy's career: "You are also the author of the most ridiculous film in the history of cinema." French intellectuals clearly haven't moved that far from the playground.