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Le Consentement

Yes, I agreed, I was fourteen years old that year.
They said I wasn't a victim, but an accomplice.
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The phenomenal book that pushed for sexual consent legislation in France has been licensed in 29 languages ​​and has sold over 300,000 copies in French. The Jean-Jacques Rousseau Autobiography Award and the ELLE Readers' Award for Nonfiction were both awarded.

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This is a memoir about trauma, healing, and courage.
With calm, precise, and candid prose, author Vanessa Springer recounts her experience at age 14 as she was seduced, controlled, and engaged in a dysfunctional relationship with the French writer G, over 30 years her senior. Even after the relationship broke down, G continued to rewrite the story, his fame in the literary world growing. Vanessa, however, felt trapped within her words, losing the ability to interpret her own life and forever remaining at 14.
"When G chose those lonely, sensitive girls who lacked family care, he knew clearly that they could not threaten his reputation. Because silence means consent."
Sometimes, all it takes is one voice to break the conspiracy of silence.
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This is a courageous work that breaks the silence. It reflects on the power inequality and violence behind "consent" through personal experience, and directly hits the layers of loopholes in the growth environment of minors, avoiding the recurrence of Fang Siqi's tragedy. When lies are hurt and written into romance, who will repay the plundered youth?
"Love knows no age, but that's not the problem."
"Literature considers itself above all social moral judgments, but as publishers, we have an obligation to let readers know that sexual relations between adults and minors who have not reached the age of consent should be condemned and punished by law." - Vanessa Springer
This triumphant book, which has driven social change in France, marked a shift in French society's attitude towards pedophilia, causing a huge public outcry in Western society. Major media outlets such as The New York Times, The Guardian, Le Monde, and The Financial Times have all written articles recommending Consent. Like a firebomb thrown in France's face, it's a dazzling yet highly restrained work of anger... After its publication, prosecutors launched an investigation into G. His collaborations with three publishing houses were terminated, his lifetime allowance was canceled... The government announced that the age of sexual consent would be set at 15. Her book is a victory in every sense of the word. - The New York Times
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This healing book has inspired countless wounded hearts and resonated deeply with millions of readers. I want to thank the author on behalf of all of us: the young girls who have been raped, the "sluts," those who are afraid to speak out, those who are blocked from speaking out, those who are overwhelmed, those who survived, those who did not survive, those who have been stigmatized, those who have been destroyed by narcissistic perverts, and those who think "everything is their fault." Once again, I thank her from the bottom of my heart. -Amazon reader⚡
Small format design, double cover, light and easy to carry, comfortable to read
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"Consent" is an elegantly laid trap, a memoir that raises pointed questions about desire and literature, and about a culture obsessed with women's youth and their inexperience rather than their art. —The Paris Review
Springer wrote this memoir not just for herself, but to call on people to stop normalizing toxic masculinity, which should not be excused just because the man is a "great artist"... Consent is tragic but also powerful, and it is one of the most important testimonies ever written on this topic. - Contemporary World Literature
"Consent" is really about power: who we give it to and where it should be limited. It's also a corrective to inequality. - The Sunday Times

2023-02-08

文汇出版社

New Classic Culture

219

9787549637300