How Long to Read Melancholy and the Archive

How Long Does it Take to Read Melancholy and the Archive?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 27 minutes to read Melancholy and the Archive by Jonathan Boulter

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

Description

Melancholy and the Archive examines how trauma, history and memory are represented in key works of major contemporary writers such as David Mitchell, Paul Auster, Haruki Murakami and Jose Saramago. The book explores how these authors construct crucial relationships between sites of memory-the archive becomes a central trope here-and the self that has been subjected to various traumas, various losses. The archive-be it a bureaucratic office (Saramago), an underground bunker (Auster), a geographical space or landscape (Mitchell) or even a hole (Murakami)-becomes the means by which the self attempts to preserve and conserve his or her sense of history even as the economy of trauma threatens to erase the grounds of such preservation: as the subject or self is threatened so the archive becomes a festishized site wherein history is housed, accommodated, created, even fabricated. The archive, in Freudian terms, becomes a space of melancholy precisely as the subject preserves not only a personal history or a culture's history, but also the history of the traumas that necessitates the creation of the archive as such.

How long is Melancholy and the Archive?

Melancholy and the Archive by Jonathan Boulter is 204 pages long, and a total of 51,816 words.

This makes it 69% the length of the average book. It also has 63% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Melancholy and the Archive Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 43 minutes to read Melancholy and the Archive aloud.

What Reading Level is Melancholy and the Archive?

Melancholy and the Archive 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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