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Growing Up: Knausgård on Proust, Boyishness, and (Straight) Time

Olivia Noble Gunn
Scandinavian Studies, September 2020, 92 (3) 325-347; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/sca.92.3.0325
Olivia Noble Gunn
University of Washington
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