@achrisafis ... Springora’s book, Le Consentement … Je pense encore quil ny a de violence que physique. Vanessa Springora, 47, a publisher, recounts how she allegedly had sex in the mid-1980s, at the age of 14, with Gabriel Matzneff, an award-winning author then nearly 50.
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Je me surprends maintenant à le haïr de menfermer dans cette fiction perpétuellement en train de sécrire, livre après livre, et à travers laquelle il se donnera toujours le beau rôle ; un fantasme entièrement verrouillé par son ego, et qui sera bientôt porté sur la place publique. Ms. Springora is the first to testify among the teenage girls seduced by Gabriel Matzneff, whose behavior, described in his own books, has long been tolerated in the Parisian literary world. Et, en effet, comment admettre quon a été abusé, quand on ne peut nier avoir été consentant ? On aurait tort de croire quils sont comme tout le monde. She describes how police interviewed Matzneff after anonymous tip-offs at the time of their relationship but never pursued a case.Matzneff, now 83, expressed “sadness” in a message to L’Obs, describing the book as a “hostile, mean, disparaging work” aimed at damaging him.On Friday Bernard Pivot, a celebrated literary critic and journalist who interviewed Matzneff on TV many times, responded to the growing controversy about how Matzneff had been allowed to describe his relationships with teenage girls on literary talkshows without being challenged by the host.He said: “In the 1970s and 1980s, literature came before morality; today, morality comes before literature.
Morally, that’s progress.
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Certains livres sont dexcellents médicaments. De cette anormalité, j'ai fait en quelque sorte ma nouvelle identité. Je ne supporte plus quil ait fait de la dissimulation et du mensonge une religion, de son travail décrivain un alibi par lequel justifier son addiction. The literary editor alleges that she had a destructive underage sexual relationship with feted French author Gabriel Matzneff, now in his eighties. He pursued her with letters and followed her in the street, and she began a relationship with him when she was 14, according to the book.Springora claims Matzneff would wait for her outside her school and at one point moved into a hotel with her to avoid a visit to his flat from the police, who had received anonymous letters warning of an underage relationship.Springora claims she ended up skipping school and falling under his control.
In 2013, he won the Renaudot prize for the essay. Weinstein denies all allegations of non-consensual sex.In her book, Springora says the 1980s events she describes have now passed the time limit for bringing a legal case. Les fêtes sespacent, les amis viennent de moins en moins jouer du piano et chanter à tue-tête à la maison, ma mère, si belle, sétiole, sisole, boit trop, se réfugie des heures entières devant sa télé, prend du poids, se néglige, va trop mal pour voir que son célibat est aussi lourd à porter pour moi que pour elle. On Matzneff also wrote about his relationships with teenagers, including Springora, in novels and published diaries, and about underage sex tourism in the Philippines – all while being hailed as a daring and talented writer.Springora writes that as a teenager she accompanied him to the recording of a TV show.In 1977, Matzneff signed an open letter calling for three men on remand accused of sexual relationships with boys aged 13 and 14 to be let off.
Elise « Pommedereinette », contributrice du groupe de lecture 20 Minutes Livres, vous recommande Le Consentement de Vanessa Springora, paru en janvier 2020 aux éditions Grasset et lauréat, en mai, du prix Jean-Jacques Rousseau de l’autobiographie.. Sa citation préférée : Je pense qu’il est extrêmement difficile de se défaire d’une telle emprise, dix, vingt ou trente ans plus tard. Je lavais oublié.
Parce quécrire, cétait redevenir le sujet de ma propre histoire. In 2013, he won the Renaudot prize for the essay. « ... vers la fin des années soixante-dix, un grand nombre de journaux et dintellectuels de gauche ont en effet pris publiquement la défense dadultes accusés davoir eu des relations « coupables » avec des adolescents.
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In Le Consentement, published by Grasset on January 2, Vanessa Springora recounts how she was seduced by Gabriel Matzneff at the age of 13 in the 1980s and the injuries that this relationship left in her life. S'emparer avec une telle brutalité de l'image de l'autre, c'est bien lui voler son âme (p. 167).
Et déplore «l’aveuglement» de tout un milieu. Impossible de livrer un combat à armes égales. Très souvent, dans les cas dabus sexuel ou dabus de faiblesse, on retrouve un même déni de réalité : le refus de se considérer comme une victime. 32 citations (Page 1 sur un total de 2 pages) < 2.