(Ebook) Consent: A Memoir by Vanessa Springora, Natasha Lehrer (translation) ISBN 9780063047884, 9780063047914, 9780063060388, 0063047888, 0063047918, 0063060388

(Ebook) Consent: A Memoir by Vanessa Springora, Natasha Lehrer (translation) ISBN 9780063047884, 9780063047914, 9780063060388, 0063047888, 0063047918, 0063060388

Already an international literary sensation, an intimate & 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, & 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 & 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 painstaking memoir lays bare the cultural attitudes & 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 & her seduction by one of her country's most notable writers, Vanessa reflects on the ways in which this disturbing relationship changed & affected her as she grew older.Drawing parallels between children's fairy tales & French history & her personal life, Vanessa offers an intimate & absorbing look at the meaning of love & consent & the toll of trauma & 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 & helped perpetuate gender inequality & the exploitation & sexual abuse of children.°°° Vanessa Springora is a French writer & editor. Consent is her first book.