How Long to Read The Feeling Sonnets

How Long Does it Take to Read The Feeling Sonnets?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 54 minutes to read The Feeling Sonnets by Eugene Ostashevsky

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

Description

Slyly funny, inventive, and virtuosic, this new collection from a Russian-American master challenges poetic convention and explores themes of alienhood, translation, and human emotion. In Eugene Ostashevsky’s The Feeling Sonnets—his fourth collection of poems— words, idioms, sentences, and poetic conventions are dislodged and defamiliarized in order to convey the experience of living in a land, and a language, apart. The book consists of four cycles of fourteen unrhymed, unmetered sonnets. The first cycle asks about the relationship between interpretation and emotion, whether “we feel the feelings that we call ours.” The second cycle, mainly composed of “daughter sonnets,” describes bringing up children in a foreign country and a foreign language. The third cycle, called “Die Schreibblockade,” German for writer’s block, talks about foreign-language processing of inherited historical trauma, in this case the siege of Leningrad from 1941 to 1944. The fourth cycle is about translation. The sonnets are followed by a short libretto, commissioned by the Italian composer Lucia Ronchetti, about Ravel’s interaction with Paul Wittgenstein over the Piano Concerto for the Left Hand.

How long is The Feeling Sonnets?

The Feeling Sonnets by Eugene Ostashevsky is 113 pages long, and a total of 28,589 words.

This makes it 38% the length of the average book. It also has 35% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Feeling Sonnets Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 36 minutes to read The Feeling Sonnets aloud.

What Reading Level is The Feeling Sonnets?

The Feeling Sonnets 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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