Consent: Read the shocking book that inspired the movie now in theaters

While the movie Le Consentement is currently in theaters, ConsentThe book is worth discovering if you haven’t already.

“Paris, 1985. Vanessa is thirteen years old when she meets Gabriel Matznef, a famous fifty-year-old writer. A young teenager becomes the lover and muse of this person known by the cultural and political world. Losing herself in the relationship, she becomes more and more violently affected by the destructive influence this predator exerts on her..”

Posted in January 2020 Consent When it came out, there was a lot of noise, which caused a loud scandal: and rightly so, because this autobiographical story denounces the control and sexual abuse of which the author was a victim when he was a minor, at the hands of the famous writer Gabriel Matznefi. .

Indeed, the book, like the film, tells the true story of editor, writer and actress Vanessa Springora. It quickly became one of the best-selling works in bookstores at the time and was the subject of many translations around the world. Consent Now adapted for the big screen with Vanessa Philo, Kim Higuelin, Jean-Paul Ruves, Leticia Casta and Elodie Boucher.

Before or after seeing the feature film in theaters on October 11th, careful reading is simply essential.

Courtesy of Vanessa Springora:

• Paper format: 216 pages
• Language: French
• By Grasset (Jan 2, 2020)
• Dimensions: 13 x 1.9 x 21 cm (large format)

An exciting and certainly necessary story: we recommend reading this shocking and important work.

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