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Aug 2022
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Rediffusion - Virginia Woolf, Précoces e...

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Durant l'été, le podcast Portraits vous invite au voyage. Cette semaine, rendez-vous dans le sud de l'Angleterre avec Virginia Woolf. 


La jeune Virginia Woolf, qui grandit dans la riche bibliothèque de son père intellectuel, se mesure à l’écriture très tôt : fantaisies enfantines, journal intime, carnet de voyage, notes de lecture... Portrait.

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