It takes the average reader 4 hours and 26 minutes to read Funeral Rites by Jean Genet
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
“A dazzling masterwork” of sex, death, love, and suffering in WWII Vichy France by the infamous novelist and author of Our Lady of the Flowers (Leo Bersani, The New York Times Book Review). One of the great literary outlaws of the 20th century, Jean Genet was committed to challenging the complacent middle-class morality of his native France. His apocalyptic, pornographic, autobiographical novel “Funeral Rites is quite possibly an evil book. It is clearly a brilliant book...a seminal document in the development of one of the most important literary imaginations of our time” (The Washington...
Funeral Rites by Jean Genet is 258 pages long, and a total of 66,564 words.
This makes it 87% the length of the average book. It also has 81% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 3 minutes to read Funeral Rites aloud.
Funeral Rites is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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