How Long to Read Still: Samuel Beckett's Quietism

How Long Does it Take to Read Still: Samuel Beckett's Quietism?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 50 minutes to read Still: Samuel Beckett's Quietism by Wimbush Andy

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

Description

In the 1930s, a young Samuel Beckett confessed to a friend that he had been living his life according to an ‘abject self-referring quietism’. Andy Wimbush argues that ‘quietism’—a philosophical and religious attitude of renunciation and will-lessness—is a key to understanding Beckett’s artistic vision and the development of his career as a fiction writer from his early novels Dream of Fair to Middling Women and Murphy to late short prose texts such as Stirrings Still and Company. Using Beckett’s published and archival material, Still: Samuel Beckett’s Quietism shows how Beckett distilled an...

How long is Still: Samuel Beckett's Quietism?

Still: Samuel Beckett's Quietism by Wimbush Andy is 290 pages long, and a total of 72,500 words.

This makes it 98% the length of the average book. It also has 89% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Still: Samuel Beckett's Quietism Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 36 minutes to read Still: Samuel Beckett's Quietism aloud.

What Reading Level is Still: Samuel Beckett's Quietism?

Still: Samuel Beckett's Quietism is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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