Is The Consent Worth Reading?
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Published in France in 2020 and translated by Natasha Lehrer, Vanessa Springora's The Consent is a searing memoir in which the French editor recounts being groomed and exploited as a teenage girl by a celebrated French author twice her age. Written with cold precision and devastating clarity, Springora dismantles the cultural mythology that glamorized such relationships in literary Paris. The book ignited a national reckoning with power, consent, and the complicity of institutions that protected predatory artists. It is a work of profound psychological self-excavation and courageous truth-telling.
“Unflinching and devastatingly precise. Springora writes about trauma with the composure of someone who has truly reclaimed her story.”
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AI reading intelligence“Unflinching and devastatingly precise. Springora writes about trauma with the composure of someone who has truly reclaimed her story.”
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4.5
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- Is The Consent worth reading?
- Unflinching and devastatingly precise. Springora writes about trauma with the composure of someone who has truly reclaimed her story. Ada rates it 4.5 out of 5.
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