"I did what I had to do," she notes, recalling that this intervention won her many criticisms at the time within the Parisian literary community.

- bernard pivot (@ bernardpivot1) December 27, 2019 "You have been complacent towards a pedophile criminal. Vanessa Springora, now an editor, tells how she was seduced in the 80s at the age of 14 by Gabriel Matzneff, a sulphurous writer who did not hide her taste for "those under the age of sixteen". Morally, this is progress. "The literary aura is not a guarantee of impunity. And to describe a hold that continues in the literary field: the author writes a lot and lays down on paper his conquests and sexual adventures, including with boys during trips to Asia. You have used the term" pups "to speak of them, to disparage them, ridicule them, disqualify them ", notably called out in a press release the feminist collective #NousToutes. But it has drawn the wrath of many Internet users. You have expressed no disgust, no indignation, no empathy towards the victims. "Vanessa says that (my intervention) gave her the strength, after 30 years, to write and to decide to speak," she explains. It allows the author to reclaim her story, stolen by a sexual predator. The novelist explained, during a series of interviews to the Quebec media, having received an email from Vanessa Springora thanking her for being the only one to publicly denounce the actions of Gabriel Matzneff. We are more or less the intellectual and moral products of a country and, above all, of an era, "wrote the former president of the Goncourt Academy on Twitter, where he has more than a million subscribers. This year's No. 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. At 13, it is very easy to be seduced by a man, certainly sulfurous, his pedophile inclinations are known, but crowned with intellectual prestige. We are in the 80s, but the law prohibits sexual relations with a minor under 15 years of age. ‘Vanessa Springora’s memoir Le Consentement describes her relationship with Gabriel Matzneff, which began when she was 14 and he in his 50s.’ Photograph: Martin Bureau/AFP via Getty Images "In the 70s and 80s, literature came before morality; today, morality takes precedence over literature. And yet Gabriel Matzneff will initiate, isolate, manipulate his prey. She bites the hook, he initiates it sexually, she lives with him at the hotel, says to herself “a Just like the educational institution which knows but does not say anything, the hospital where it stays, the brigade of minors who do not take the investigation very far. Vanessa Springora publishes a book, "Consent", in which she describes the grip he exercised over her in the 80s when she was a minor. The story of a relationship between a teenage girl and a well-known writer, in his fifties, pedophile in the 1980s. "I hope to bring a small stone to the building that we are building around the questions of domination and consent", explains to Obs Vanessa Springora, who specifies that she started to write her book "well before the 'Harvey Weinstein affair' at the end of 2017. Vanessa Springora tells her story, that of a 13/14 year old teenage girl, lacking a father, who will meet " This ogre is a famous writer of the 70s / 80s, attractive, in grace in the literary, political and journalistic environment, he is openly pedophile and besides his sexual relations with very young girls and boys in France or abroad. are the raw material of his books. This is the book everyone is talking about in this literary back to school in January.