How Long to Read Hotel Lautréamont

How Long Does it Take to Read Hotel Lautréamont?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 59 minutes to read Hotel Lautréamont by John Ashbery

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

Description

In John Ashbery’s haunting 1992 collection, just as in the traveler’s experience of a hotel, we recognize everything, and yet nothing is familiar—not even ourselves Hotel Lautréamont invites readers to reimagine a book of poems as a collection of hotel rooms: each one empty until we enter it, and yet in truth abundantly furnished with associations, necessities, and echoes of both the known and the alien. The collection’s title poem is itself an evocative echo: Comte de Lautréamont was the pseudonym taken by Isidore-Lucien Ducasse, a radical nineteenth-century French writer about whom little is known except that he produced one remarkable presymbolist epic prose poem called The Songs of Maldoror and died of fever at the age of twenty-four in a hotel in Paris during Napoleon III’s siege of the city in 1870. Addressed to lonely ghosts, lingering guests, and others, the poems in Hotel Lautréamont present a study of exile, loss, meaning, and the artistic constructions we create to house them.

How long is Hotel Lautréamont?

Hotel Lautréamont by John Ashbery is 235 pages long, and a total of 59,925 words.

This makes it 79% the length of the average book. It also has 73% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Hotel Lautréamont Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 27 minutes to read Hotel Lautréamont aloud.

What Reading Level is Hotel Lautréamont?

Hotel Lautréamont 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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