Gabriel Matzneff, 86-year-old writer targeted by an investigation for rape of 15-year-old minors, has found an editor who will publish a collection of articles, we learned from this last Thursday.
The editions of the New Library have planned to publish on November 8
Last writings before the massacre
.
This publishing house, attached to the bookstore of the same name in the Latin Quarter in Paris, defines itself as "hussar" in literature and "from the identity right, patriot" in politics, its director François Bousquet told AFP. .
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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to the publisher, the collection to be published brings together "texts written between 2015 and 2019, either unpublished or published in various press organs", mainly the magazine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!.
These articles all predate the publication in January 2020 of the novel
Le Consentement
by Vanessa Springora, which sparked the scandal 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 years old and he was almost 50 years old.
“Gabriel Matzneff, we know, no longer had any publisher (...) Through mutual friends, this book arrived at our house.
And we wouldn't have wanted it if he had praised pedophilia,”
explained Mr. Bousquet.
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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 Mr. Matzneff.