How Long to Read Pybrac

How Long Does it Take to Read Pybrac?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 23 minutes to read Pybrac by Pierre Louÿs

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

Description

By turns amusing and offensive, Pierre Louÿs' Pybrac is possibly the filthiest collection of poetry ever published, and offers a taste of what the Marquis de Sade might have produced if he had ever turned his hand to verse. First published posthumously in 1927, Pybrac was, with The Young Girl's Handbook of Good Manners, one of the first of Louÿs' secret erotic manuscripts to see clandestine publication. Composed of 313 rhymed alexandrine quatrains, the majority of them starting with the phrase "I do not like to see...," Pybrac is in form a mockery of sixteenth-century chancellor poet Guy Du Faur, Seigneur de Pibrac, whose moralizing quatrains were common literary fare for young French readers until the nineteenth century. Louÿs spent his life coming up with his own ever-growing collection of rhymed moral precepts (suitable only for adult readers): a dizzying litany describing everything he "disliked" witnessing, from lesbianism, sodomy, incest and prostitution to perversions extreme enough to give even a modern reader pause. With the rest of his erotic manuscripts, the original collection of over 2,000 quatrains was auctioned off and scattered throughout private collections; but like everything erotic, what remains, collected here, conveys an impression of unending absurdity and near-hypnotic obsession.

How long is Pybrac?

Pybrac by Pierre Louÿs is 142 pages long, and a total of 35,784 words.

This makes it 48% the length of the average book. It also has 44% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Pybrac Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 15 minutes to read Pybrac aloud.

What Reading Level is Pybrac?

Pybrac is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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