How Long to Read A Dictator Calls

How Long Does it Take to Read A Dictator Calls?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 45 minutes to read A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Using a sophisticated and literary version of the ever-popular game of telephone to examine the relationship of writers with tyranny, Ismail Kadare reflects on three particular minutes in a long moment of time when the dark shadow of Joseph Stalin passed over the world In June 1934, Stalin allegedly called Boris Pasternak and they spoke about the arrest of Osip Mandelstam. A telephone call from the dictator was not something necessarily relished, and in the complicated world of literary politics it would have provided opportunities for potential misunderstanding and profound trouble. But this was a call one could not ignore. Stalin wanted to know what Pasternak thought of the idea that Mandelstam had been arrested. Ismail Kadare explores the afterlife of this phone call using accounts of witnesses, reporters, writers such as Isaiah Berlin and Anna Akhmatova, wives, mistresses, biographers, and even archivists of the KGB. The results offer a meditation on power and political structure, and how literature and authoritarianism construct themselves in plain sight of one another. Kadare’s reconstruction becomes a gripping mystery, as if true crime is being presented in mosaic. A little time ago the poet Mandelstam was arrested. What have you to say to that, Comrade Pasternak?

How long is A Dictator Calls?

A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare is 104 pages long, and a total of 26,416 words.

This makes it 35% the length of the average book. It also has 32% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read A Dictator Calls Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 24 minutes to read A Dictator Calls aloud.

What Reading Level is A Dictator Calls?

A Dictator Calls is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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