How Long to Read Essayism

By Brian Dillon

How Long Does it Take to Read Essayism?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 1 minute to read Essayism by Brian Dillon

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

Description

A compelling ode to the essay form and the great essaysists themselves, from Montaigne to Woolf to Sontag. Essayism is a book about essays and essayists, a study of melancholy and depression, a love letter to belle-lettrists, and an account of the indispensable lifelines of reading and writing. Brian Dillon’s style incorporates diverse features of the essay. By turns agglomerative, associative, digressive, curious, passionate, and dispassionate, his is a branching book of possibilities, seeking consolation and direction from Michel de Montaigne, Virginia Woolf, Roland Barthes, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Georges Perec, Elizabeth Hardwick, and Susan Sontag, to name just a few of his influences. Whether he is writing on origins, aphorisms, coherence, vulnerability, anxiety, or a number of other subjects, his command of language, his erudition, and his own personal history serve not so much to illuminate or magnify the subject as to discover it anew through a kaleidoscopic alignment of attention, thought, and feeling, a dazzling and momentary suspension of disparate elements, again and again.

How long is Essayism?

Essayism by Brian Dillon is 177 pages long, and a total of 45,489 words.

This makes it 60% the length of the average book. It also has 56% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Essayism Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 8 minutes to read Essayism aloud.

What Reading Level is Essayism?

Essayism is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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