Vanessa Springora has 3 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 3 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.7★ across 13 ratings. The most-rated is Le Consentement.
Le Consentement
Summary
"Depuis tant d'années, je tourne en rond dans ma cage, mes rêves sont peuplés de meurtre et de vengeance. Jusqu'au jour où la solution se présente enfin, là, sous mes yeux, comme une évidence : prendre le chasseur à son propre piège, l'enfermer dans un livre." Séduite à l'âge de quatorze ans par un célèbre écrivain quinquagénaire, Vanessa Springora dépeint, trois décennies plus tard, l'emprise que cet homme a exercée sur elle et la trace durable de cette relation tout au long de sa vie de femme. Au-delà de son histoire intime, elle questionne dans ce récit magnifique les dérives d'une époque et la complaisance d'un milieu littéraire aveuglé par le talent et la notoriété. Un livre audio puissant porté par le lecture sensible de Guila Clara Kessous.
©2020 Éditions Grasset & Fasquelle (P)2020 Audiolib
Consent
Summary
“Consent is a Molotov cocktail, flung at the face of the French establishment, a work of dazzling, highly controlled fury.... By every conceivable metric, her book is a triumph.” (The New York Times) Already an international literary sensation, an intimate and powerful memoir of a young French teenage girl’s relationship with a famous, much older male writer - a universal #MeToo story of power, manipulation, trauma, recovery, and resiliency that exposes the hypocrisy of a culture that has allowed the sexual abuse of minors to occur unchecked. Sometimes, all it takes is a single voice to shatter the silence of complicity. Thirty years ago, Vanessa Springora was the teenage muse of one of the country’s most celebrated writers, a footnote in the narrative of a very influential man in the French literary world. At the end of 2019, as women around the world began to speak out, Vanessa, now in her forties and the director of one of France’s leading publishing houses, decided to reclaim her own story, offering her perspective of those events sharply known. Consent is the story of one precocious young girl’s stolen adolescence. Devastating in its honesty, Vanessa’s painstakingly memoir lays bare the cultural attitudes and circumstances that made it possible for a 13-year-old girl to become involved with a 50-year-old man who happened to be a notable writer. As she recalls the events of her childhood and her seduction by one of her country’s most notable writers, Vanessa reflects on the ways in which this disturbing relationship changed and affected her as she grew older. Drawing parallels between children’s fairy tales and French history and her personal life, Vanessa offers an intimate and absorbing look at the meaning of love and consent and the toll of trauma and the power of healing in women’s lives. Ultimately, she offers a forceful indictment of a chauvinistic literary world that has for too long accepted and helped perpetuate gender inequality and the exploitation and sexual abuse of children. Translated from the French by Natasha Lehrer "...One of the belated truths that emerges from [Consent] is that Springora is a writer. [...]Her sentences gleam like metal; each chapter snaps shut with the clean brutality of a latch." (The New Yorker) "Consent [is] rapier-sharp, written with restraint, elegance and brevity." (The Times (London) "[Consent] has something steely in its heart, and it departs from the typical American memoir of childhood abuse in exhilarating ways." (Slate) "Lucid and nuanced...[Consent] will speak to trauma survivors everywhere." (Los Angeles Review of Books) ”A piercing memoir about the sexually abusive relationship she endured at age 14 with a 50-year-old writer...This chilling account will linger with readers long after the last page is turned.” (Publishers Weekly) "Springora's lucid account is a commanding discussion of sexual abuse and victimization, and a powerful act of reclamation." (Booklist) "A chilling story of child abuse and the sophisticated Parisians who looked the other way...[Springora] is an elegant and perceptive writer." (Kirkus)
©2020 Vanessa Springora (P)2020 HarperCollins Publishers
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El consentimiento [The Consent]
Summary
La noticia literaria del año aplaudida por la prensa mundial: la Nueva Gran Novela Francesa, ganadora del Gran Premio de las Lectoras de Elle y del Premio Jean-Jacques Rousseau y número 1 en ventas. "Se lee conteniendo la respiración y te deja en estado de shock." (Le Parisien) Con 13 años, Vanessa Springora conoce a Gabriel Matzneff, un apasionado escritor 36 años mayor que ella, tras cuyo prestigio y carisma se esconde un depredador. Después de un meticuloso cortejo, la adolescente se entrega a él en cuerpo y alma, cegada por el amor e ignorante de que sus relaciones con menores llevan años nutriendo su producción literaria. Más de 30 años después de los hechos, Springora narra de forma lúcida y fulgurante esta historia de amor y perversión, y la ambigüedad de su propio consentimiento. Su maravillosa novela ha hecho, según el diario Le Monde, "arder Saint-Germain-des-Prés": el caso Matzneff cuestiona a la intelectualidad francesa y a una sociedad obnubilada por el talento y la celebridad. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
©2020 Éditions Grasset & Fasquelle (P)2020 Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, S.A.U.