How Long to Read Manas

How Long Does it Take to Read Manas?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 42 minutes to read Manas by Alfred Doeblin

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

Description

This remarkable book â€" an exciting and intriguing story, a blend of Hindu mythology and existentialism and told with great verve in a vigorous, direct language of many moods and voices â€" is one of the major fictions Alfred Döblin produced over the forty tumultuous years pre-World War 1 to post-World War 2. Döblin himself is one of the least known of the twentieth centuryâ€(TM)s great German writers, though his reputation has grown in Germany since his death in 1957: smart new editions appear every decade or so, and streams of books, journal articles and scholarly colloquia examine aspects of his art and his thinking. The Anglophone reader comes to Döblin with little idea what to expect. Maybe a vague knowledge of that one title from his vast output: Berlin Alexanderplatz â€" The Story of Franz Biberkopf. The next novel after Manas, it has eclipsed all the rest ever since its publication in 1929. Döblinâ€(TM)s reputation rests largely on the major fictions he called â€~epicsâ€(TM). He wanted a new kind of fiction, a break from the bourgeois novel: no more playing with â€~plotâ€(TM), â€~suspenseâ€(TM), â€~individualsâ€(TM) with invented â€~psychologiesâ€(TM), no more cheap eroticism. Döblinâ€(TM)s fictions â€" all substantial works: Wallenstein, the Amazonas trilogy, November 1918 are each three to four times longer than Manas â€" are best conceived, he said, as symphonies. They proceed not so much by plot-action (though Manas does have a very forward-moving plot) as by themes and motifs that swell and fade, appear and reappear in tempi slow or fast, employing an orchestra of voices. And these symphonic fictions in their varied guises do indeed pursue, over forty years, matters of enduring human concern.

How long is Manas?

Manas by Alfred Doeblin is 448 pages long, and a total of 115,584 words.

This makes it 151% the length of the average book. It also has 141% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Manas Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 31 minutes to read Manas aloud.

What Reading Level is Manas?

Manas 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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