How Vanessa Springora's Consent tries to transcend the #MeToo moment it created
How Vanessa Springora’s Consent tries to transcend the #MeToo moment it created A French memoir of sexual abuse created a political storm – but is it, as its author suggests, “first and foremost a piece of literature”? Most memoirists are burdened with the question of how to make their relatively unexceptional lives interesting enough for public consumption – a question whose answers are generally sought in the quality or distinctiveness of the prose. Vanessa Springora may have been faced with the opposite problem: the raw elements of her story are so extraordinary that the m...
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