Consent

Le consentement - Vanessa Springora - Grasset - 2020

Vanessa Springora unveils a deeply moving autobiography in which she looks back, with chilling lucidity, on her relationship with the writer Gabriel Matzneff when she was a teenager. At just 14, she fell under the spell of this fifty-year-old man, protected by his literary aura and the complacency of a milieu blinded by talent. With her incisive, liberating writing, the author exposes the insidious mechanism of manipulation, the ambiguity of "consent" in a minor victim, and denounces an era when pedocriminality could hide behind the glitter of celebrity. A film adaptation was also released in 2023.

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