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040			_aTULIB _beng _cTULIB
050			_aZ305.S67A3 _b2021
100	1		_aSpringora, Vanessa.
245	1	0	_aConsent : _ba memoir / _cVanessa Springora ; translated from the French by Natasha Lehrer.
260			_aLondon : _bHarperVia, _c2021.
300			_aviii, 194 p.
500			_a"Originally published as: Le Consentement in France in 2020 by Editions Grasset & Fasquelle"
520			_a"A French memoir in the age of #metoo. A literary sensation, Vanessa Springora's Consent weaves her personal narrative of a relationship during her childhood with a famous, much older writer into a stunning and forceful indictment of the literary world that allowed sexual abuse of minors to occur unchecked"--
520			_aSometimes, 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 and 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 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 country's most notable writers, Vanessa reflects on the ways in which this disturbing relationship changed and affected her as she grew older. Drawing parallels between children's 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 women's 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.
600	1	4	_aSpringora, Vanessa.
650		4	_aPublishers and publishing _zFrance _xBiography.
650		4	_aAdult child sexual abuse victims _zFrance _xBiography.
700	1		_aLehrer, Natasha.
740	3		_aLe Consentement.
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