Omerta is collapsing in the literary world. In an article published on The world this Thursday, March 7, I am more than 400 report “impunity in all its forms” From proclaimed “literate” or “graduates” “who often behave like predators, almost always like superior beings“ .
“If you talk you’re half dead”
Writers, editors, teacher-researchers, including Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux, Vanessa Springora, Camille Kouchner, author of The large family highlight the reality of persistent sexual violence and rape in the literary world and make an urgent appeal the organization of the general states for women in universities, publishing and literature.
These literary figures cite the recent conviction of the Goncourt poet Jean-Michel Maulpoix for domestic violence. The signatories of the forum underline this belief “confirms that neither literature nor academia save women”. The sordid details of the violence suffered by Maulpoix’s ex-partner, reported by Mediapartthey include punches to the stomach while pregnant and attacks on an already broken wrist and multiple scenes of humiliation.
“Hierarchy goes perfectly with sexism and misogyny” observe the signatories, whose words resonate with the situation of Laure Helms, Maulpoix’s ex-wife and victim of the author, denouncing a situation of control (they met when she was a 24-year-old student and he, a writer and university professor, 59 years.
“ Invent another world: without denial, without injustice, without predation »
Despite the violence of the facts for which the author was convicted, his publisher Gallimard republished two of his collections two days after the verdict, just like Pocket and Mercure de France editions. On the contrary, women do not enjoy this impunity. As the authors of the article report: “If you talk, you’re half dead. Your career is dead. Your reputation is dead. Dead for real or dead for pretend, you’re dead. »
And the signatories conclude:
We ask our friends, historians, philosophers, scientists, sociologists, artists, to join us, so that #metoouniversity, #metoolliterature, #metoophilosophy, #metooarts, #metoosciences Also invent another world: without denial, without injustice, without predation.
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Source: Madmoizelle
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