These non-fiction memoirs from the last century include lives both relatable—and exceptional.
” may recall the early days of America’s #MeToo movement as the memoir documents how Vanessa Springora was preyed upon by a celebrated French writer. Gabriel Matzneff met her at a dinner party. “He threw me a smile,” she writes, “which I confused for a paternal smile, because…I no longer had a father.” Springora’s parents had split; her father had essentially vanished. She felt electrified by Matzneff’s attention. She was on the cusp of 14. He was nearly 50.
The first time she visited his flat, he kissed her. The second visit he undressed her. “He boasted of his experience,” Springora writes, “how skillfully he had taken the virginity of several young teenage girls, how he always ensured it didn’t hurt in the slightest.” When her body reflexively resisted, he flipped her over. “That is how I lost the first part of my virginity., he whispered to me.” He often waited for her after school. She thought she was in love.
Springora’s memoir sent shock waves through France when it was published there in 2020, laying bare how urban elites. He wrote casually and at length about his attraction to “rather extreme youth” in his books. Springora used the oppressor’s tools to dismantle his house. “For many years I paced around my cage, my dreams filled with murder and revenge,” she writes.
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