How Long to Read The Fear of Losing Eurydice

How Long Does it Take to Read The Fear of Losing Eurydice?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 13 minutes to read The Fear of Losing Eurydice by Julieta Campos

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

Description

This lyrical novel by one of Mexico's leading women writers explores both desire and the desire to tell a love story. In an idle moment between grading assignments, a French teacher sitting in a cafe in a Caribbean seaport town sketches an island on his white napkin. Like Proust's "petite madeleine," the island opens up a host of images: ""Island" the sum of all improbabilities; intoxicating improbability of fiction. "Island" image of desire... All the islands formulated by human beings and all islands appearing on the maps comprise a single imaginary archipelago--the archipelago of desire." Monsieur N.'s original plan to use a Jules Verne novel about shipwrecked schoolboys as a translation exercise for his pupils becomes an obsession to collect every reference to islands he can find and to meditate on them in a diary of his imaginary travels--his "Islandiary." Parallel to this quest is an archetypal love story that he begins writing in his notebook, printed in a narrow column with islands of quotations surrounding it. Voyaging and the quest for islands becomes a metaphor for the search for paradise, for the island as an imagined place where love achieves perfection. It also becomes a metaphor for writing: "Every text is an island."

How long is The Fear of Losing Eurydice?

The Fear of Losing Eurydice by Julieta Campos is 132 pages long, and a total of 33,264 words.

This makes it 45% the length of the average book. It also has 41% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Fear of Losing Eurydice Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 1 minute to read The Fear of Losing Eurydice aloud.

What Reading Level is The Fear of Losing Eurydice?

The Fear of Losing Eurydice is suitable for students ages 10 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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