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Consent de Vanessa Springora

Consent

Autor Vanessa Springora Traducere de Natasha Lehrer
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 ian 2022

Notăm cu interes apariția volumului Consent, o lucrare care vine să completeze o lacună majoră în literatura de memorii contemporană: analiza mecanismelor de putere din interiorul elitei intelectuale care validează abuzul sub masca libertății artistice. Observăm cum Vanessa Springora refuză rolul de victimă pasivă, transformând amintirile unei adolescențe furate într-un rechizitoriu tăios împotriva sistemului literar francez. Volumul nu este doar o relatare personală, ci o radiografie a modului în care un bărbat de 50 de ani a putut seduce o minoră de 13 ani cu complicitatea tacită a societății.

Credem că forța acestui text rezidă în contrastul dintre experiența traumatică și stilul de scriere sobru, aproape metalic. Spre deosebire de explorările psihologice ficționalizate, această ediție în format paperback oferă o perspectivă brută, ancorată în realitatea istorică a anilor '80. Cartea completează perspectiva oferită de My Dark Vanessa de Kate Elizabeth Russell, adăugând dimensiunea responsabilității colective a unei întregi culturi care a „fetișizat” lipsa de experiență a tinerelor fete. Dacă lucrarea lui Russell se concentrează pe ambivalența memoriei individuale, Springora își poziționează experiența în contextul mai larg al unei ierarhii de putere literare.

În contextul operei sale, versiunea în limba engleză a cărții Le Consentement marchează momentul în care autoarea trece de la rolul de editor care promovează vocile altora la cel de scriitor care își revendică propria narațiune. Este un act de recuperare identitară care demontează mitul „muzei” și expune realitatea hărțuirii, oferind un model de reziliență și vindecare prin intermediul cuvântului scris.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780063047907
ISBN-10: 006304790X
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 129 x 199 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: Harpercollins

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor interesați de sociologie și de dinamica puterii în mediile academice și literare. Consent nu este doar un memoriu despre abuz, ci un instrument critic pentru a înțelege cum cultura poate deveni un paravan pentru exploatare. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă lucidă asupra consimțământului și a modului în care adevărul poate fi rostit chiar și după decenii de tăcere impusă de prestigiul agresorului.

Despre autor

Vanessa Springora este o figură centrală a lumii editoriale franceze, ocupând funcția de director al editurii Éditions Julliard. Născută în 1972, ea a studiat literatura la Sorbona înainte de a-și construi o carieră solidă în industria cărții. Publicarea volumului Consent în 2020 a provocat o undă de șoc în Franța, ducând la schimbări legislative privind vârsta consimțământului sexual și la reevaluarea critică a unor figuri literare protejate anterior de statutul lor cultural. Springora este recunoscută pentru curajul de a confrunta establishment-ul francez, utilizând experiența sa profesională pentru a structura un discurs narativ de o rară precizie și eleganță.

Descriere scurtă

 “Consent” is a Molotov cocktail, flung at the face of the French establishment, a work of dazzling, highly controlled fury...By every conceivable metric, her book is a triumph.” -- The New York Times 
Already an international literary sensation, an intimate and 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, and 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 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. 
Translated from the French by Natasha Lehrer
"...One of the belated truths that emerges from [Consent] is that Springora is a writer. [...]Her sentences gleam like metal; each chapter snaps shut with the clean brutality of a latch." -- The New Yorker
"Consent [is] rapier-sharp, written with restraint, elegance and brevity." -- The Times (London)
"[Consent] has something steely in its heart, and it departs from the typical American memoir of childhood abuse in exhilarating ways." -- Slate

"Lucid and nuanced...[Consent] will speak to trauma survivors everywhere." -- Los Angeles Review of Books
”A piercing memoir about the sexually abusive relationship she endured at age 14 with a 50-year-old writer...This chilling account will linger with readers long after the last page is turned.” -- Publishers Weekly 
"Springora's lucid account is a commanding discussion of sexual abuse and victimization, and a powerful act of reclamation." -- Booklist

"A chilling story of child abuse and the sophisticated Parisians who looked the other way...[Springora] is an elegant and perceptive writer." -- Kirkus

Recenzii

"Lucid and nuanced . . . [Consent] will speak to trauma survivors everywhere."  — Los Angeles Review of Books
“Consent is that elegantly laid trap, a memoir that asks sharp questions about desire, literature, and a culture that fetishizes female youth and inexperience over female art. “ — The Paris Review
"Consent [is] rapier-sharp, written with restraint, elegance and brevity." — The Times (London)
"[Consent] has something steely in its heart, and it departs from the typical American memoir of childhood abuse in exhilarating ways." — Slate
“Consent is a Molotov cocktail, flung at the face of the French establishment, a work of dazzling, highly controlled fury...By every conceivable metric, her book is a triumph.” — New York Times
”A piercing memoir about the sexually abusive relationship she endured at age 14 with a 50-year-old writer. . . . This chilling account will linger with readers long after the last page is turned.”   — Publishers Weekly
"A fierce account from a woman hoping to wrest her story back. Recommended Reading." — Library Journal
"Springora's lucid account is a commanding discussion of sexual abuse and victimization, and a powerful act of reclamation." — Booklist
"A chilling story of child abuse and the sophisticated Parisians who looked the other way...[Springora] is an elegant and perceptive writer." — Kirkus Reviews
“One of the belated truths that emerges from [Consent] is that Springora is a writer. . . . Her sentences gleam like metal; each chapter snaps shut with the clean brutality of a latch.” — The New Yorker
"In elegant, focused prose, fluidly translated by Natasha Lehrer...With admirable restraint – another author might have been tempted to veer off into disquisitions on De Sade, Balthus, or Nabokov – Springora describes how Matzneff expertly manipulated her into believing she had as much agency and power as he did."   — The Guardian
"Springora’s style is incisive and she keeps readers hooked with short chapters depicting a post-1968 libertarian establishment that lets her down[.]"  — The Financial Times
"Even if he is acquitted, Springora has managed to exact some revenge by capturing G, and all of his terrible behavior, forever in these erudite, incriminating pages." — New York Journal of Books
"[Consent] is really about power; who we give it to, and where it should be curtailed. It is also about correcting an imbalance." — Sunday Times (London)
“By coldly dismantling the mechanism, the cogs and the collusions, Vanessa Springora transcends the personal framework and questions society as a whole. In this, Consent is a book that counts, far beyond testimony.”  — Nicole Grudlinger


“The story delivered is reminiscent of that of a pact with the devil and the reference to fairy tales (Bluebeard in particular) highlights the importance of the theme of sexual predator in literature, including children's literature. Love must be there in wonder; in the case of the sexual predator, the stupor is not that of joy but that of Evil. To write it is to exorcise it, in the strong sense; to receive this testimony is to accompany this disenchantment and to get out of the state of torpor in which conformism, indifference or complacency always threaten to plunge us.”  — Elodie Pinel, La Revue Études
“[Springora] is not writing this memoir solely for herself; she’s writing it as a plea to stop normalizing the type of toxic masculinity that is often excused because the male is a ‘great artist.’…Consent is powerful and tragic, and one of the most important testimonies on this subject ever written.” — World Literature Today

Notă biografică

Vanessa Springora is a French writer and editor. Consent is her first book.

Descriere

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The devastating and powerful memoir from a French publisher who was abused by a famous writer from the age of 13.

Thirty years ago, Vanessa Springora was the teenage muse of one of France’s most celebrated writers, a footnote in the narrative of an influential man. At the end of 2019, as women around the world began to speak out, Springora, now in her 40s and the director of one of France’s leading publishing houses, decided to reclaim her own story.

Consent is the story of her stolen adolescence. Devastating in its honesty, Springora’s painstaking memoir lays bare the cultural attitudes and circumstances that made it possible for a 13-year-old girl to become involved with a 50-year-old man.

Drawing parallels between children’s fairy tales, French history and the author’s personal life, Consent offers intimate insights into the meaning of love and consent, the toll of trauma and the power of healing in women’s lives.