How Long to Read Brian Castro's Fiction

How Long Does it Take to Read Brian Castro's Fiction?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 55 minutes to read Brian Castro's Fiction by Bernadette M. Brennan

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

Description

Brian Castro is one of the most innovative and challenging novelists writing in English today. By virtue of his childhood migration from Hong Kong to Australia, he is an Australian writer, but he writes from the margins of what might be termed mainstream Australian literature. In an Australian context, Castro has been linked with Patrick White because like White he is an intellectual, deeply ironic, modernist writer. His writing can also be comfortably situated within a wider circle of (largely European) modernist works by Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin, Virginia Woolf, Thomas Mann, James Joyce, Gustav Flaubert, Vladimir Nabokov, W. G. Sebald, and the list goes on. Castros writing conducts richly intertextual conversations with these writers and their work. Castros writing is linguistically and structurally adventurous. He revels in the ability of good experimental writing to open up imaginative possibilities for the reader. He strives always to encourage his readers imagination to embrace heterogeneity and uncertainty. His extensive engagement with the great modernist writers of the 20th century, combined with his Australian-Chinese cross-cultural concerns make his work unique amongst Australian writers. Castros fiction is becoming increasingly recognized for its brilliance around the world. Readers and scholars, particularly from France, Germany and China, are discovering the delightful challenges and rewards his writing offers. In Australia, however, Castros writing has often been dismissed by academics and major publishing houses as being too cerebral or too literary. He has been labeled a writers writer because of the literariness of his concerns and the vast sweep ofintertextual references that inform his narratives. Castros writing demands a committed, intelligent and passionate reader. He constructs narratives of absences, gaps, and multiple perspectives in the expectation that his reader will make the necessary imaginative connections and, in a sense, become the writer of his text. Castro has stated that the kind of novel he most enjoys reading is one he does not understand immediately, one that requires him to search out references and make discoveries. This is the kind of novel he writes. Perhaps, for this reason he has not attracted the large readership his work deserves. This study of Castros fiction has two major objectives: to open up multiple points of entry into Castros texts as a means of encouraging readers to make their own imaginative connections and to explore diverse ways of reading, as well as to initiate further published scholarly discussions and readings of Castros work. In this first critical study of Brian Castros work, Bernadette Brennan offers original and creative readings of Castros eight published novels. Brennan guides the reader through Castros elaborate semantics and at times dizzying language games to elucidate clearly Castros imaginative concerns and strategies. She opens up the many rhizomatic connections between Castros work and the multitude of texts and theorists that influence it and with whom it converses. And through all of this, she stays true to Castros imaginative project: to remain always open ended, always gesturing towards possibility rather than certainty and closure. Brian Castros Fiction is an important book for all literature and Australasian collections throughout the world.

How long is Brian Castro's Fiction?

Brian Castro's Fiction by Bernadette M. Brennan is 233 pages long, and a total of 58,949 words.

This makes it 79% the length of the average book. It also has 72% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Brian Castro's Fiction Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 22 minutes to read Brian Castro's Fiction aloud.

What Reading Level is Brian Castro's Fiction?

Brian Castro's Fiction is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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