El consentiment

At the age of thirteen, Vanessa Springora meets Gabriel Matzneff, a passionate writer thirty-six years her senior, behind whose prestige and charisma hides a predator. After a meticulous courtship, the adolescent surrenders to him body and soul, blinded by love and unaware that her relationships with minors have nurtured her literary production for years. More than thirty years after the events, Springora lucidly and brilliantly tells this story of love and perversion, and the ambiguity of her own consent. Her wonderful novel has made, according to the newspaper Le Monde, "burn Saint-Germain-desPrés": the Matzneff case questions the French dummyentsia and a society clouded by talent and celebrity.