Living and Dying with Marcel Proust. By Christopher Prendergast
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Journal Article Living and Dying with Marcel Proust. By Christopher Prendergast Get access Prendergast. (Europa Compass.) London: Europa, 2022. 243 pp. Emma Wilson Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, United Kingdom [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume 77, Issue 3, July 2023, Pages 496–497, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knad052 Published: 18 2023
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عنوان ژورنال: French Studies
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['1468-2931', '0016-1128']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knad052