Gabriel Matzneff, 86-year-old writer targeted by an investigation for rape of minors under 15, has found an editor who will publish a collection of articles, we learned from this last Thursday.
Editions de la Nouvelle Librairie have planned to publish “Last writings before the massacre” on November 8.
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This publishing house, attached to the bookstore of the same name in the Latin Quarter in Paris, defines itself as "hussard" in literature and "of the identity right, patriot" in politics, indicates its director François Bousquet.
According to the publisher, the collection to be published brings together "texts written between 2015 and 2019, either unpublished or published in various press organs", mainly the magazine Le Point where Gabriel Matzneff was a columnist.
This author won the Renaudot prize for essays in 2013 for a similar collection, “Séraphin, c’est la fin!”
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"Vanessavirus", the self-published book to justify yourself
These articles all predate the publication in January 2020 of the novel "Le Consentement" by Vanessa Springora, which caused the scandal to burst and prompted the Paris prosecutor's office to open the investigation.
In this story, Vanessa Springora told how she had been seduced in the 1980s by the novelist when she was not 14 and he was almost 50 years old.
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“Gabriel Matzneff, as we know, no longer had any publisher (…) Through mutual friends, this book arrived at our house.
And we would not have wanted it if he had praised pedophilia, ”explained François Bousquet.
After a last volume of his newspaper in 2019, and the launch of the judicial inquiry, Gabriel Matzneff had been let go by his publisher, Gallimard.
He had self-published in 2021 a story to justify himself, entitled “Vanessavirus”.
Despite the means deployed to find facts not covered by the prescription, the investigation is likely to end in a dismissal, for lack of being able to identify at least one recent victim of Gabriel Matzneff.