How Long to Read Dead End

How Long Does it Take to Read Dead End?

It takes the average reader to read Dead End by Michel Surya

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Description

DEAD END is a sinuous pornographic work that falls in line with Michel Surya's series of erotic books released in France two decades ago. Drafted in 1985, rediscovered among the author's papers in 2004, and completed in 2007, DEAD END speaks with a cerebral starkness bereft of any youthful confidence. Here, the limits of excess themselves are stifling, erotic immoderation no longer satisfies, and worldly anguish reveals itself as ever crueler, more evident. Developing a genre which one might term "neurotica," this flood of language, rawer with every unpunctuated breath, affirms and reaffirms the fear that we are beyond salvation. As full of vertiginous bravado and self-loathing as it is of sensual generosity and the genuine search for mutual pleasure, DEAD END's address of the beloved unspools with the devastating, nearly religious force of total confession. This translation by Kit Schluter marks the debut of Surya's fiction in the English language. "In Minima Moralia, Adorno writes that the measurement of how 'intimately sex and language are intertwined can be seen by reading pornography in a foreign language.' Or in any language. As soon as authors set out to write, they dissolve into their text: they become body-less, thing-less, person-less; they become what they compose and, as Blanchot claims, die into the work, ceasing to exist while the text lives on. In Michel Surya's DEAD END, the author pursues what can never be truly attained: the elusive Other, and, through the Other, the death of himself--in both the erotic sense of dissolving into the other and in the literal sense of viewing his own body decay. In DEAD END, though, nothing dies: the reader becomes author and character; self becomes other; you becomes we, and vice versa. In this way, the urgency of Surya's novella becomes revelatory in the word's original sense of laying bare, unveiling. In Kit Schluter's translation, the words come alive and speak to us as if there were no intermediary, and there is none. This is the wonder of reading: the words enter us as we enter the Other, and 'we' are never the same."--Charlotte Mandell, translator of Coming by Jean-Luc Nancy Fiction.

How long is Dead End?

Dead End by Michel Surya is 0 pages long, and a total of 0 words.

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How Long Does it Take to Read Dead End Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes to read Dead End aloud.

What Reading Level is Dead End?

Dead End is suitable for students ages 2 and up.

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