How Long to Read "Dark Pictures" and Other Stories

How Long Does it Take to Read "Dark Pictures" and Other Stories?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 24 minutes to read "Dark Pictures" and Other Stories by 野間宏

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

Description

Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies No. 30 The short stories that Noma Hiroshi produced in the years of confusion and self-questioning after World War II struck a deep response in his readers. In the three stories contained here--"Dark Pictures," "A Feeling of Disintegration," and "A Red Moon in Her Face"--the main characters are all young men who have lived through the war but have emerged far from unscathed. In "Dark Pictures"--probably the most famous of Noma's stories--the protagonist thinks back to his last meeting with his university friends before they were all arrested. The "dark pictures" of the title refer to paintings and engravings by Brueghel, which the protagonist and his friends had viewed together. The miseries depicted in Brueghel's work seem in retrospect to encapsulate all the miseries the main character has suffered since seeing his friends: persecution, self-doubt, sexual anxiety, warfare, imprisonment, bombardment, and the miseries of life in Japan after the defeat. The other two stories are set in the postwar world of black marketeers and bombsites, but they too concern young men whose universal anxieties about sexual desires and their place in the world are overshadowed by memories of the brutality of war. Influenced by symbolism and the techniques of European modernists, Noma's writing will seem both familiar and eerie to Western readers. These translations offer for the first time the chance for English readers to appreciate the work of this difficult and haunting writer.

How long is "Dark Pictures" and Other Stories?

"Dark Pictures" and Other Stories by 野間宏 is 198 pages long, and a total of 51,084 words.

This makes it 67% the length of the average book. It also has 62% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read "Dark Pictures" and Other Stories Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 39 minutes to read "Dark Pictures" and Other Stories aloud.

What Reading Level is "Dark Pictures" and Other Stories?

"Dark Pictures" and Other Stories is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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