Consent
Book description
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…
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1 author picked Consent as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This memoir is an important book, for it changed the French consciousness (and law) about statutory rape. And it brought down the famous author, Gabriel Matzneff, who set out to groom a fourteen-year-old girl into having an affair with him. Some of his earlier books were about his lust for little boys. He was, in fact, a pedophile, disguised as an author.
This is far from a misery memoir, which is how detractors like to describe women’s memoirs dealing with assault or abuse. The writing describes the political climate in which Springora enters into a relationship at fourteen with a…
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