How did a celebrated French writer get away with writing brazen accounts of his sexual relations with minors for decades? That’s the question the world is asking about French writer Gabriel Matzneff, who is only just now coming under investigation
Gabriel Matzneff. Photo: Jacques Demarthon/AFP via Getty Images .
“This is the #MeToo of the French publishing world,” François Busnel, host of La Grande Librairie, said, per the New York Times. “A voice has been set free in an environment, the French literary environment, which is male chauvinist, quite misogynistic, and which stays silent — omertà.” As the Times notes, Matzneff wasn’t the only prominent writer of his generation who spoke out against age-of-consent laws: French thinkers including Michel Foucault and Jean-Paul Sartre also defended sexual relations with minors.
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