How Long to Read Nocturnes

How Long Does it Take to Read Nocturnes?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 14 minutes to read Nocturnes by W.E. Gutman

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

Description

Exulting in polemic and moral disobedience, disquieting and politically charged, NOCTURNES swings dizzyingly between parody and horror, wry humor and paradox. Denouncing predigested notions of life and death, compassion and bestiality, justice and inequity, sanity and psychosis, this thinly veiled allegory casts an acerbic, often savage eye at society's most cherished convictions. Implicit in this cautionary parable is a haunting but strangely tenable premise: Imagine a realm that spies on dreamers, a social order in which "forbidden" musings, nightmares, chimeras and heretical concepts -- whether seized in one's sleep or evoked in a wakeful state -- are intercepted and wayward dreamers are hunted down and silenced. the "dreams" woven in NOCTURNES are aimed to stupefy, disconcert. Bent on distracting society from its utilitarian yoke and reconciling irrationality with the rigors of conscious thought, the author argues that knowledge of the world is inextricably shaped and conditioned by the opinions we inherit -- or that we perfunctorily manufacture along the way. a penchant for deconstructionist philosophy leads the author to argue that the only valid foundation for knowledge is an attitude that, on one hand, rejects "truth" based on blind trust or coerced doctrine ["any truth that owes its existence solely to faith is a lie"], and, on the other, proposes that reality comes directly from our experience of what it is to perceive it ["We are what we think."] NOCTURNES is literature at its most surreal -- perhaps the storybook equivalent of a Hieronymus Bosch painting or an Escher ink drawing that defies the laws of perspective and fools the senses Anyone requiring booster shots of cynicism, the kind that deliver dreamers from groundless hope, idealists from pointless fancies, will savor W. E. Gutman's new opus. All others, the straitlaced and the faint-of-heart, are enjoined to abstain lest they succumb to its melancholy spell.

How long is Nocturnes?

Nocturnes by W.E. Gutman is 252 pages long, and a total of 63,504 words.

This makes it 85% the length of the average book. It also has 78% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Nocturnes Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 47 minutes to read Nocturnes aloud.

What Reading Level is Nocturnes?

Nocturnes 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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