Francuzi w poszukiwaniu kłopotliwego czasu przyzwolenia. Literatura | Pedofilia | Rewolucja
The French in search of a troublesome time of consent. Literature | Pedophilia | Revolution

Summary/Abstract: Vanessa Springora’s Le Consentement, a post-traumatic testimony of her relationship with the writer Gabriel Matzneff, when she was 14 and he was 50 years old, proved to be a catalyst for the repressed memory of the “era of consent” of the 1970s and 1980s. At the time, a significant part of the French intellectual and artistic community supported the pro-pedophile discourse with the tacit consent of the general public. The author analyzes the current debate in the context of the #MeToo movement, the revision of the legacy of May ’68, and the entanglement of literature in the glorification of erotic-pedagogical relationships between the mature and the immature. The current paradigm shift – the twilight of the era of “forbidding to forbid” (and thus sanctioning “rape culture”) and the beginning of a new one, in which “one does not consent to consent” is presented in the spirit of the “dreamed-through revolution” and the drama of the search for the “stolen letter.”

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