It takes the average reader 8 hours and 26 minutes to read Bowstring by Viktor Shklovsky
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Dalkey Archive Press’s favorite writer of them all. “Myths do not flow through the pipes of history,” writes Viktor Shklovsky, “they change and splinter, they contrast and refute one another. The similar turns out to be dissimilar.” Published in Moscow in 1970 and appearing in English translation for the first time, Bowstring is a seminal work, in which Shklovsky redefines estrangement (ostranenie) as a device of the literary comparatist—the “person out of place,” who has turned up in a period where he does not belong and who must search for meaning with a strained sensibility. As Shklovsky...
Bowstring by Viktor Shklovsky is 489 pages long, and a total of 126,651 words.
This makes it 165% the length of the average book. It also has 155% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 11 hours and 32 minutes to read Bowstring aloud.
Bowstring is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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