How Long to Read Background Noise

How Long Does it Take to Read Background Noise?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 7 minutes to read Background Noise by Saúl Yurkiévich

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

Description

Background Noise introduces to the English-speaking world the poetry of Argentinian writer Saul Yurkievich, in a bilingual edition. His poetry is a play of language and ideas, with language leading the way. His longer poems are collages, full of similarities and contrasts that remain unresolved, not circumscribed by a determination to harmonize or integrate. Also important to Yurkievich are sound and rhythm. His poems are like jazz solos, spontaneously flowing in response to nothing but themselves. And therefore they are great joys to read aloud. But beneath the pleasures of Yurkievich's riffs, there is a troubling despair. There is a sense in the poems of our inability to know, to find, to get what we desire. Writing in the tradition of Huidobro, Vallejo, and the early Neruda, Yurkievich's work both celebrates and laments the world's pandemonium. The title poem begins, "tenebrous turbid turmoil turbulence," an incantation of chaos. Also included in this volume is an interview with Yurkievich and his friend, the late fiction writer Julio Cortazar, about their approaches to writing. Book jacket.

How long is Background Noise?

Background Noise by Saúl Yurkiévich is 244 pages long, and a total of 61,976 words.

This makes it 82% the length of the average book. It also has 76% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Background Noise Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 38 minutes to read Background Noise aloud.

What Reading Level is Background Noise?

Background Noise is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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