For so many years I have been circling around in my cage, my dreams are filled with murder and revenge. Until the day when the solution finally presents itself, there, before my eyes, as obvious: to take the hunter in his own trap, to lock him in a book. Seduced at the age of fourteen by a famous fifty-something writer, Vanessa Springora portrays, three decades later, the hold that this man had on her and the lasting mark of this relationship throughout her life as a woman. Beyond her intimate story, in this magnificent story she questions the excesses of an era and the complacency of a literary milieu blinded by talent and notoriety.