The cover of Vanessa Springora’s book. (Martin BUREAU / AFP) – AFP
Vanessa Springora, who tells in a book to be published Thursday her relationship under the influence, at 14, with the writer Gabriel Matzneff, denounced on Wednesday the “dysfunctions” of the institutions and “the hypocrisy of an entire era”.
“I met him in 1986. We knew him. There was a dysfunction of all the institutions: school, police, hospital… This is what is staggering in front of an activist of the pedophile cause who has published texts in this sense and who prides himself on it, ”says- she in an interview published Wednesday evening by The Parisian.
“It is the hypocrisy of an entire era that must be questioned”
“It was not very difficult to know who Matzneff was at the time,” added the 47-year-old editor, citing “terrifying quotes” from her book “The under-sixteen.” The self-proclaimed taste of the 83-year-old writer for underage girls and for sex tourism with young boys in Asia had so far caused little eyebrow. The release of the book The consent seems to be doing
to make a difference.
reactingt to the regrets expressed by former TV host Bernard Pivot accused of complacency with the writer, Vanessa Springora says she is “surprised” that he is the only one to have taken this step. “More than this hunt for the man who is taking place vis-à-vis Matzneff, an old man in misery who is no longer able to harm anyone, for me, it is the hypocrisy of an entire era that must be called into question, ”she insists.
“I don’t know how many years he has been active”
“I had no signal from any of its publishers (…). In 2013, when he received the Renaudot, Not a single literary journalist has questioned the merits of this award. The life of an anonymous teenager is nothing compared to the status of a writer. ” Despite her decision to write this book, she says she has “no desire to be the spokesperson for anything.”
“I receive testimonies that overwhelm me. I tell myself that maybe I should have written earlier, it makes me feel a little guilty, I don’t know how many years it has been active, I have been told terrible stories in the meantime, much worse than mine , but I can’t be the spokesperson for it, ”she explains.
“If other younger people want to go to court to have them testify, or to testify, they each repair their trauma in their own way. This book is already a trace and an imprint. It will make you think. The editors, the authors, the media, everyone, “added the editor, who” refrained from watching what was happening on social networks “around this affair. “It’s too violent.”
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