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Matzneff affair: another story from a victim that has never been published

2020-01-10T15:56:25.312Z


In the 1980s, a woman recounted how, as a teenager, she had been abused by the writer before remaining traumatized by it. His book


What if the Matzneff affair exploded 30 years ago? We knew that the writer's victims were numerous. We did not know, however, that in the 1980s, one of them, like Vanessa Springora today, had told her drama on paper. But unlike the author of "Consent", the young woman was not published.

In this story, the victim of Gabriel Matzneff wrote in particular that she was then a teenager, became pregnant with the writer and that she had aborted. But it was before 1975, before the Veil law, the abortion went badly and it became sterile. Unlike Vanessa Springora, this woman would not have been able to overcome this trauma.

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His testimony had however been accepted by an editor at Grasset, the same publishing house which published in 2020 "Le Consentement" by Vanessa Springora. But, according to our information, it was put on the back burner by the boss of Grasset at the time, Jean-Claude Fasquelle, now 89 years old, as well as by senior executives including Yves Berger, literary director, writer, deceased in 2004.

"We didn't touch these people"

In this small, hushed world of Parisian publishing, "everyone knew well what Matzneff and other presumed pedophiles did in the publishing world, it fueled dinners in town and it shocked few people," recalls a former literary journalist. "Gallimard who publishes Matzneff may be the rival house of Grasset, we did not touch these people," he continues. And besides, today, these are the same people who are turning over their jackets… It's disgusting… ”

As for Grasset, we do not wish to speak on this matter. The publishing house has been run since 2000 and the departure of Jean-Claude Fasquelle by Olivier Nora who gave the green light to publish Vanessa Springora's text and deemed it "very strong, very beautiful and very literary", according to one of his relatives.

Source: leparis

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