How Long to Read Our Pre-War, A Generation in the Storm

How Long Does it Take to Read Our Pre-War, A Generation in the Storm?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 7 minutes to read Our Pre-War, A Generation in the Storm by Robert Brasillach

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

Description

"Our pre-war period was not everyone's pre-war period, I know that. It was first of all that of a small group of friends, sometimes distant from the time when they lived, but I imagine that through the details of their individual existence they were able to preserve some fairly common assets. I am not making confidences here, I am not in the mood for them: perhaps I would rather talk about my companions than about myself. But by force of circumstance, these companions have crossed a universe and a time that belonged to others. They came into the light of day when the post-war period was ending, when illusions were hovering to the sound of Geneva cellos, discovering Paris at the same time as the enchantments of silent cinema, the theatre in its vitality, poetry in its purity, anarchy in its charm, and they gradually moved towards a planet full of the glitter of possible wars, towards the exasperation of nationalisms, towards the oblivion of ivory towers and the concerns of pure art. It was an adventure greater than our own, and the very adventure of contemporary history: we knew it too. Our schools, our magazines, our houses, our travels, our pleasures, were only the sin-gular appearances, it seems to me, by which our era was designated to us. Describing them in their particularity, I already have the impression of conducting excavations. Whatever the future holds, it will no longer look the same to us or to others. Spain at war, the holy exaltation of the triumphal year, is a thing of the past. The nonchalant life of a student in Paris, through certain cafés, certain restaurants, certain cinemas, certain theatres, all transformed or disappeared today, is a thing of the past. The ephemeral costumes, which are so difficult to reconstruct from memory, the fashionable songs, the American navy berets, the Hawaiian guitars, the batik or thick wool ties, the tunes of Mireille, the fairy tales, the West Indian dances, the pure poetry, all of this, jumbled together, is history. And the theatre will no longer be the same for us, since we will no longer read Lucien Dubech's article on a performance by Georges Pitoëff, and since they both returned with haste, in the early days of the war, to the land of images and ghosts.

How long is Our Pre-War, A Generation in the Storm?

Our Pre-War, A Generation in the Storm by Robert Brasillach is 244 pages long, and a total of 61,976 words.

This makes it 82% the length of the average book. It also has 76% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Our Pre-War, A Generation in the Storm Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 38 minutes to read Our Pre-War, A Generation in the Storm aloud.

What Reading Level is Our Pre-War, A Generation in the Storm?

Our Pre-War, A Generation in the Storm 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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