How Long to Read Approximate Man, and Other Writings

How Long Does it Take to Read Approximate Man, and Other Writings?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 40 minutes to read Approximate Man, and Other Writings by Tristan Tzara

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Description

Poet-critic Tristan Tzara, brilliant founder of the Dada movement, is just beginning to receive the attention he has long deserved both in France and in English-speaking countries. Very little of his writing has been available in English translation, and much of it has long been out of print in France. This volume, a major critical anthology of Tzara's work in English, contains a broad selection of his writings representing the many sides of his creative output: the poetic (including his free verse, catalog and collage poems, prose poems, epic), the dramatic, the critical, and the declamatory. It includes the great Dada surrealist poetic epic of 1925-30, "Approximate Man," remarkable for its inner variety and its ambitious theme, and oriented toward the human and the natural as the Dada were oriented toward deliberate artifice and the antihuman. Tzara's essays on poetry and art, invaluable for correcting the still prevalent opinion that Dada was totally negative, also demonstrate the violence of style and impact that carries over into his later meditations on language and dream. Selections are included from early rudimentary Dada plays, from Cloud Handkerchief, the ironic and romantic collage epic based on Hamlet, and from the lyric monologue Flight. The accompanying introduction examines Tzara's changing styles, concerns, and commitments, as well as the epic poem that is his masterpiece. Notes are provided for the text. Most valuable for the scholar is an account of the more interesting variants taken from the enormous mass of Tzara's manuscripts. Finally, the combination of spontaneity with poetic effort, of definite themes and centers of interest, lend particular scope to the collection, which is at once essay, critical presentation and anthology.

How long is Approximate Man, and Other Writings?

Approximate Man, and Other Writings by Tristan Tzara is 280 pages long, and a total of 70,000 words.

This makes it 94% the length of the average book. It also has 86% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Approximate Man, and Other Writings Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 22 minutes to read Approximate Man, and Other Writings aloud.

What Reading Level is Approximate Man, and Other Writings?

Approximate Man, and Other Writings is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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