How Long to Read Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales

How Long Does it Take to Read Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 20 minutes to read Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales by Kurt Schwitters

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

Description

Kurt Schwitters revolutionized the art world in the 1920s with his Dadaist Merz collages, theater performances, and poetry. But at the same time he was also writing extraordinary fairy tales that were turning the genre upside down and inside out. Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales is the first collection of these subversive, little-known stories in any language and the first time all but a few of them have appeared in English. Translated and introduced by Jack Zipes, one of the world's leading authorities on fairy tales, this book gathers thirty-two stories written between 1925 and Schwitters's death in 1948--including a complete English-language recreation of The Scarecrow, a children's book illustrated with avant-garde typography that Schwitters created with Kate Steinitz and De Stijl founder Theo van Doesburg. Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales also includes brilliant new illustrations that evoke the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. Schwitters wrote these darkly humorous, satirical, and surreal tales at a time when traditional German fairy tales were being co-opted by the Nazis. Filled with sharp critiques of German life during the Weimar and early Nazi eras, Schwitters's tales are rich with absurdist events and insist that not everyone--and perhaps not anyone--lives happily ever after. In "Lucky Hans," the starving protagonist tries to catch a rabbit only to have it shed its fur like a coat and run off naked into the forest. In other tales, a sarcastic gypsy stands in for a fairy godmother and an army recruit is arrested for growing to monstrous size. Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales is a delightfully strange and surprising book.

How long is Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales?

Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales by Kurt Schwitters is 260 pages long, and a total of 65,000 words.

This makes it 88% the length of the average book. It also has 79% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 55 minutes to read Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales aloud.

What Reading Level is Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales?

Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales 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.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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