The devastating and powerful memoir from a French publisher who was abused by a famous writer from the age of thirteen\n‘Dazzling’ New York Times\n‘A gut-punch of a memoir with prose that cuts like a knife’ Kate Elizabeth Russell, author of My Dark Vanessa\nThirty years ago, Vanessa Springora was the teenage muse of one of France’s most celebrated writers, a footnote in the narrative of an influential man. At the end of 2019, as women around the world began to speak out, Springora, now in her forties and the director of one of France’s leading publishing houses, decided to reclaim her own story. 
Consent is the story of her stolen adolescence. Devastating in its honesty, Springora’s painstaking memoir lays bare the cultural attitudes and circumstances that made it possible for a thirteen-year-old girl to become involved with a fifty-year-old man. 
Drawing parallels between children’s fairy tales, French history and the author’s personal life, Consent offers intimate insights into the meaning of love and consent, the toll of trauma and the power of healing in women’s lives.

Consent: A Memoir

Springora, Vanessa

Parenting & Relationships

HarperVia

The devastating and powerful memoir from a French publisher who was abused by a famous writer from the age of thirteen\n‘Dazzling’ New York Times\n‘A gut-punch of a memoir with prose that cuts like a knife’ Kate Elizabeth Russell, author of My Dark Vanessa\nThirty years ago, Vanessa Springora was the teenage muse of one of France’s most celebrated writers, a footnote in the narrative of an influential man. At the end of 2019, as women around the world began to speak out, Springora, now in her forties and the director of one of France’s leading publishing houses, decided to reclaim her own story. 
Consent recalls her stolen adolescence. Devastating in its honesty, Springora’s painstaking memoir lays bare the cultural attitudes and circumstances that made it possible for a fourteen-year-old girl to become involved with a fifty-year-old man.

Consent: A Memoir of Stolen Adolescence

&nbsp;"Consent" is a Molotov cocktail, flung at the face of the French establishment, a work of dazzling, highly controlled fury...By every conceivable metric, her book is a triumph." -- The New York Times&nbsp; Already an international literary sensation, an intimate and powerful memoir of a young French teenage girl's relationship with a famous, much older male writer--a universal #MeToo story of power, manipulation, trauma, recovery, and resiliency that exposes the hypocrisy of a culture that has allowed the sexual abuse of minors to occur unchecked. Sometimes, all it takes is a single voice to shatter the silence of complicity. Thirty years ago, Vanessa Springora was the teenage muse of one of the country's most celebrated writers, a footnote in the narrative of a very influential man in the French literary world. At the end of 2019, as women around the world began to speak out, Vanessa, now in her forties and the director of one of France's leading publishing houses, decided to reclaim her own story, offering her perspective of those events sharply known. Consent is the story of one precocious young girl's stolen adolescence. Devastating in its honesty, Vanessa's painstakingly memoir lays bare the cultural attitudes and circumstances that made it possible for a thirteen-year-old girl to become involved with a fifty-year-old man who happened to be a notable writer. As she recalls the events of her childhood and her seduction by one of her country's most notable writers, Vanessa reflects on the ways in which this disturbing relationship changed and affected her as she grew older. Drawing parallels between children's fairy tales and French history and her personal life, Vanessa offers an intimate and absorbing look at the meaning of love and consent and the toll of trauma and the power of healing in women's lives. Ultimately, she offers a forceful indictment of a chauvinistic literary world that has for too long accepted and helped perpetuate gender inequality and the exploitation and sexual abuse of children.&nbsp; Translated from the French by Natasha Lehrer "...One of the belated truths that emerges from [Consent] is that Springora is a writer. [...]Her sentences gleam like metal; each chapter snaps shut with the clean brutality of a latch." --&nbsp;The New Yorker "Consent&nbsp;[is] rapier-sharp, written with restraint, elegance and brevity." --&nbsp;The Times (London) "[Consent] has something steely in its heart, and it departs from the typical American memoir of childhood abuse in exhilarating ways." --&nbsp;Slate "Lucid and nuanced...[Consent] will speak to trauma survivors everywhere." -- Los Angeles Review of Books "A piercing memoir about the sexually abusive relationship she endured at age 14 with a 50-year-old writer...This chilling account will linger with readers long after the last page is turned." -- Publishers Weekly&nbsp; "Springora's lucid account is a commanding discussion of sexual abuse and victimization, and a powerful act of reclamation." -- Booklist "A chilling story of child abuse and the sophisticated Parisians who looked the other way...[Springora] is an elegant and perceptive writer." -- Kirkus

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

“Consent” is a Molotov cocktail, flung at the face of the French establishment, a work of dazzling, highly controlled fury...By every conceivable metric, her book is a triumph.” -- The New York Times 
Already an international literary sensation, an intimate and powerful memoir of a young French teenage girl’s relationship with a famous, much older male writer—a universal #MeToo story of power, manipulation, trauma, recovery, and resiliency that exposes the hypocrisy of a culture that has allowed the sexual abuse of minors to occur unchecked.\nSometimes, all it takes is a single voice to shatter the silence of complicity. 
Thirty years ago, Vanessa Springora was the teenage muse of one of the country’s most celebrated writers, a footnote in the narrative of a very influential man in the French literary world. 
At the end of 2019, as women around the world began to speak out, Vanessa, now in her forties and the director of one of France’s leading publishing houses, decided to reclaim her own story, offering her perspective of those events sharply known. 
Consent is the story of one precocious young girl’s stolen adolescence. Devastating in its honesty, Vanessa’s painstakingly memoir lays bare the cultural attitudes and circumstances that made it possible for a thirteen-year-old girl to become involved with a fifty-year-old man who happened to be a notable writer. As she recalls the events of her childhood and her seduction by one of her country’s most notable writers, Vanessa reflects on the ways in which this disturbing relationship changed and affected her as she grew older. 
Drawing parallels between children’s fairy tales and French history and her personal life, Vanessa offers an intimate and absorbing look at the meaning of love and consent and the toll of trauma and the power of healing in women’s lives. Ultimately, she offers a forceful indictment of a chauvinistic literary world that has for too long accepted and helped perpetuate gender inequality and the exploitation and sexual abuse of children. 
Translated from the French by Natasha Lehrer 
"...One of the belated truths that emerges from [Consent] is that Springora is a writer. [...]Her sentences gleam like metal; each chapter snaps shut with the clean brutality of a latch." -- The New Yorker 
"Consent [is] rapier-sharp, written with restraint, elegance and brevity." -- The Times (London) 
"[Consent] has something steely in its heart, and it departs from the typical American memoir of childhood abuse in exhilarating ways." -- Slate\n"Lucid and nuanced...[Consent] will speak to trauma survivors everywhere." -- Los Angeles Review of Books 
”A piercing memoir about the sexually abusive relationship she endured at age 14 with a 50-year-old writer...This chilling account will linger with readers long after the last page is turned.” -- Publishers Weekly 
"Springora's lucid account is a commanding discussion of sexual abuse and victimization, and a powerful act of reclamation." -- Booklist\n"A chilling story of child abuse and the sophisticated Parisians who looked the other way...[Springora] is an elegant and perceptive writer." -- Kirkus

Au milieu des années 80, élevée par une mère divorcée, V. comble par la lecture le vide laissé par un père aux abonnés absents. À treize ans, dans un dîner, elle rencontre G., un écrivain dont elle ignore la réputation sulfureuse. Dès le premier regard, elle est happée par le charisme de cet homme de cinquante ans aux faux airs de bonze, par ses œillades énamourées et l’attention qu’il lui porte. Plus tard, elle reçoit une lettre où il lui déclare son besoin « impérieux » de la revoir. Omniprésent, passionné, G. parvient à la rassurer : il l’aime et ne lui fera aucun mal. Alors qu’elle vient d’avoir quatorze ans, V. s’offre à lui corps et âme. Les menaces de la brigade des mineurs renforcent cette idylle dangereusement romanesque. Mais la désillusion est terrible quand V. comprend que G. collectionne depuis toujours les amours avec des adolescentes, et pratique le tourisme sexuel dans des pays où les mineurs sont vulnérables. Derrière les apparences flatteuses de l’homme de lettres, se cache un prédateur, couvert par une partie du milieu littéraire. V. tente de s’arracher à l’emprise qu’il exerce sur elle, tandis qu’il s’apprête à raconter leur histoire dans un roman. Après leur rupture, le calvaire continue, car l’écrivain ne cesse de réactiver la souffrance de V. à coup de publications et de harcèlement. « Depuis tant d’années, mes rêves sont peuplés de meurtres et de vengeance. Jusqu’au jour où la solution se présente enfin, là, sous mes yeux, comme une évidence : prendre le chasseur à son propre piège, l’enfermer dans un livre », écrit-elle en préambule de ce récit libérateur. Plus de trente ans après les faits, Vanessa Springora livre ce texte fulgurant, d’une sidérante lucidité, écrit dans une langue remarquable. Elle y dépeint un processus de manipulation psychique implacable et l’ambiguïté effrayante dans laquelle est placée la victime consentante, amoureuse. Mais au-delà de son histoire individuelle, elle questionne aussi les dérives d’une époque, et la complaisance d’un milieu aveuglé par le talent et la célébrité.

Le consentement

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

GRASSET

« Depuis tant d'années, je tourne en rond dans ma cage, mes rêves sont peuplés de meurtre et de vengeance. Jusqu'au jour où la solution se présente enfin, là, sous mes yeux, comme une évidence : prendre le chasseur à son propre piège, l'enfermer dans un livre. » 
Séduite à l'âge de quatorze ans par un célèbre écrivain quinquagénaire, Vanessa Springora dépeint, trois décennies plus tard, l'emprise qui fut exercée sur elle et la trace durable de cette relation tout au long de sa vie de femme. Au-delà de son histoire intime, elle questionne dans ce récit les dérives d'une époque et d'un microcosme littéraire aveuglé par le talent et la notoriété. 
Un livre phénomène traduit dans vingt-deux langues et actuellement en cours d’adaptation cinématographique. 
D’une précision implacable, Le Consentement éclaire d’une lumière crue et glaçante cette zone grise dans laquelle se trouve un être sous emprise. L’Obs. 
Un conte noir des années soixante-dix. Un conte vrai. Transfuge. 
GRAND PRIX DES LECTRICES ELLE DOCUMENT. 
PRIX JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU.

Le Consentement

LA NOTICIA LITERARIA DEL AÑO APLAUDIDA POR LA PRENSA MUNDIAL\nLa Nueva Gran Novela Francesa, ganadora del Gran Premio de las Lectoras de Elle y del Premio Jean-Jacques Rousseau y número 1 en ventas.\n«Se lee conteniendo la respiración y te deja en estado de shock.» -Le Parisien\nCon trece años, Vanessa Springora conoce a Gabriel Matzneff, un apasionado escritor treinta y seis años mayor que ella, tras cuyo prestigio y carisma se esconde un depredador. Después de un meticuloso cortejo, la adolescente se entrega a él en cuerpo y alma, cegada por el amor e ignorante de que sus relaciones con menores llevan años nutriendo su producción literaria. Más de treinta años después de los hechos, Springora narra de forma lúcida y fulgurante esta historia de amor y perversión, y la ambigüedad de su propio consentimiento. Su maravillosa novela ha hecho, según el diario Le Monde, «arder Saint-Germain-desPrés»: el caso Matzneff cuestiona a la intelectualidad francesa y a una sociedad obnubilada por el talento y la celebridad.\nENGLISH DESCRIPTION\nAlready an international literary sensation, an intimate and powerful memoir of a young French teenage girl’s relationship with a famous, much older male writer—a universal #MeToo story of power, manipulation, trauma, recovery, and resiliency that exposes the hypocrisy of a culture that has allowed the sexual abuse of minors to occur unchecked.\nSometimes, all it takes is a single voice to shatter the silence of complicity. 
Thirty years ago, Vanessa Springora was the teenage muse of one of the country’s most celebrated writers, a footnote in the narrative of a very influential man in the French literary world.\nAt the end of 2019, as women around the world began to speak out, Vanessa, now in her forties and the director of one of France’s leading publishing houses, decided to reclaim her own story, offering her perspective of those events sharply known.\nConsent is the story of one precocious young girl’s stolen adolescence. Devastating in its honesty, Vanessa’s painstakingly memoir lays bare the cultural attitudes and circumstances that made it possible for a thirteen-year-old girl to become involved with a fifty-year-old man who happened to be a notable writer. As she recalls the events of her childhood and her seduction by one of her country’s most notable writers, Vanessa reflects on the ways in which this disturbing relationship changed and affected her as she grew older.\nDrawing parallels between children’s fairy tales and French history and her personal life, Vanessa offers an intimate and absorbing look at the meaning of love and consent and the toll of trauma and the power of healing in women’s lives. Ultimately, she offers a forceful indictment of a chauvinistic literary world that has for too long accepted and helped perpetuate gender inequality and the exploitation and sexual abuse of children.

El consentimiento / Consent (Spanish Edition)

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Le consentement

Le Consentement

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