Tuesday 2 February 2021, the site News discloses the information that Gabriel Matzneff is about to publish a new book, Vanessavirus. A work that wants to be a literary response to the accusations made against it by Vanessa Springora in her book The Consent published on January 2, 2020. The writer notably accused the latter of having abused her when she was a minor. Our colleagues indicate that ’no publishing house has given its consent to publish this answer book. Thus, the 84-year-old author is said to have decided to appeal to crowdfunding in order to be able to enjoy his right of reply, while he admitted to being in a difficult financial situation since he was deprived of the allowance for low-income writers from which he benefited since 2002. A publication which will fall right into the media whirlwind caused by the release of La Familia Grande, book through which Camille Kouchner accuses Olivier Duhamel of incest.
Pou reminder, following the publication of Vanessa Springora's book, The Consent, justice had taken note of the remarks which were reported there. The Paris prosecutor's office had opened an investigation for "sexual assault by a person having authority over a 15-year-old minor and rape " and "sexual assault by person in authority ". Charges to which Gabriel Matzneff, who has never hidden his taste for very, very young underage girls, will have to answer on September 28, 2021 during his trial for apologizing for a crime following the publication by him of a letter opened on January 2, 2020 on which he presented his relationship with Vanessa Springora as a passionate love.
Writings placed "safe in a bank vault"
In The consent, the publisher claimed to have been abused by the author with whom she had had a relationship since she was 14 years old. He was almost forty years older. During their searches, investigators searched for written passages of the writer not appearing in his published works. In fact, during an interview with the old site Redactions, in 2008, Gabriel Matzneff admitted having "self-censored" some "passages" of his writings, for fear that they may be "deemed especially scandalous". Writings that would have been placed"safe in a bank vault", according to the words of one who will never have been worried, so far.
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