It takes the average reader 2 hours and 9 minutes to read The Loss Library and Other Unfinished Stories by Ivan Vladislavic
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"Not writing is always a relief and sometimes a pleasure. Writing about what cannot be written, by contrast, is the devil's own job." In this unusual text, a blend of essay, fiction, and literary genealogy, South African novelist Ivan Vladislavic explores the problems and potentials of the fictions he could not bring himself to write. Drawing from his notebooks of the past twenty years, Vladislavic records here a range of ideas for stories--unsettled accounts, he calls them, or case studies of failure--and examines where they came from and why they eluded him. In the process, he reveals some...
The Loss Library and Other Unfinished Stories by Ivan Vladislavic is 126 pages long, and a total of 32,256 words.
This makes it 43% the length of the average book. It also has 39% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 56 minutes to read The Loss Library and Other Unfinished Stories aloud.
The Loss Library and Other Unfinished Stories is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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