“Surname”: five years after “Le Consentement”, the new shocking story by Vanessa Springora

Five years ago, Vanessa Springora shook up the entire society with “Le Consentement”, a poignant and chilling story about her relationship with the writer Gabriel Matzneff when she was only 14 and he was in his fifties. She returns in this literary season with an equally powerful text, still on her quest for identity, in which she resurrects the ghosts of the past. With “Patronyme”, in bookstores this Thursday, January 2, the author, now 52 years old, embarks on a dizzying family investigation in the footsteps of her grandfather and her father.