Overview
La Nueva GranĀ NovelaĀ Francesa, ganadora del GranĀ Premio de lasĀ Lectoras deĀ ElleĀ y delĀ Premio Jean-Jacques Rousseau yĀ nĆŗmero 1Ā enĀ ventas.
Ā«Se lee conteniendo la respiraciĆ³n y te deja en estado deĀ shock.Ā» -LeĀ Parisien
Con trece aƱos, Vanessa Springora conoce a Gabriel Matzneff, un apasionado escritor treinta y seis aƱos mayor que ella, tras cuyo prestigio y carisma se esconde un depredador. DespuĆ©s de un meticuloso cortejo, la adolescente se entrega a Ć©l en cuerpo y alma, cegada por el amor e ignorante de que sus relaciones con menores llevan aƱos nutriendo su producciĆ³n literaria. MĆ”s de treinta aƱos despuĆ©s de los hechos, Springora narra de forma lĆŗcida y fulgurante esta historia de amor y perversiĆ³n, y la ambigĆ¼edad de su propio consentimiento. Su maravillosa novela ha hecho, segĆŗn el diarioĀ Le Monde, Ā«arder Saint-Germain-desPrĆ©sĀ»: el caso Matzneff cuestiona a la intelectualidad francesa y a una sociedad obnubilada por el talento y la celebridad.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
Already an international literary sensation, an intimate and powerful memoir of a young French teenage girlās relationship with a famous, much older male writerāa 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.Ā
Thirty years ago, Vanessa Springora was the teenage muse of one of the countryās 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 Franceās 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 girlās stolen adolescence. Devastating in its honesty, Vanessaās 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 countryās most notable writers, Vanessa reflects on the ways in which this disturbing relationship changed and affected her as she grew older.Ā
Drawing parallels between childrenās 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 womenās 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.
This book title, El consentimiento / Consent, ISBN: 9788426409270, by Vanessa Springora, published by PRH Grupo Editorial (December 22, 2020) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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