How Long to Read The Hermes Complex

How Long Does it Take to Read The Hermes Complex?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 50 minutes to read The Hermes Complex by Charles Le Blanc

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

Description

When Hermes handed over to Apollo his finest invention, the lyre, in exchange for promotion to the status of messenger of the gods, he relinquished the creativity that gave life to his words. The trade-off proved frustrating: Hermes chafed under the obligation to deliver the ideas and words of others and resorted to all manner of ruses in order to assert his presence in the messages he transmitted. His theorizing descendants, too, allow their pretentions to creatorship to interfere with the actual business of reinventing originals in another language. Just as the Hermes of old delighted in leading the traveller astray, so his descendants lead their acolytes, through thickets of jargon, into labyrinths of eloquence without substance. Charles Le Blanc possesses the philosophical tools to dismantle this empty eloquence: he exposes the inconsistencies, internal contradictions, misreadings, and misunderstandings rife in so much of the current academic discourse en translation, and traces the failings of this discourse back to its roots in the anguish of having traded authentic creativity for mere status.

How long is The Hermes Complex?

The Hermes Complex by Charles Le Blanc is 170 pages long, and a total of 42,500 words.

This makes it 57% the length of the average book. It also has 52% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Hermes Complex Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 52 minutes to read The Hermes Complex aloud.

What Reading Level is The Hermes Complex?

The Hermes Complex 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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