How Long to Read The Ribbon at Olympia's Throat

How Long Does it Take to Read The Ribbon at Olympia's Throat?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 59 minutes to read The Ribbon at Olympia's Throat by Michel Leiris

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

Description

Short fragments and essays that explore how a seemingly irrelevant aesthetic detail may cause the eruption of sublimity within the mundane. That the nude painted by Manet (in a painting so conceptually new that it created a scandal in its day) achieves so much truth through such a minor detail, that ribbon that modernizes Olympia and, even more than a beauty mark or a patch of freckles would, renders her more precise and more immediately visible, making her a woman with ties to a particular milieu and era: that is what lends itself to reflection, if not divagation! —from The Ribbon at Olympia's Throat In The Ribbon at Olympia's Throat, Michel Leiris investigates what Lydia Davis has called the “expressive power of fetishism”: how a seemingly irrelevant aesthetic detail may cause the eruption of sublimity within the mundane. Written in 1981, toward the end of Leiris's life, The Ribbon at Olympia's Throat serves as a coda to his autobiographical masterwork, The Rules of the Game, taking the form of both shorter fragments (poems, memory scraps, notes) that are as formally disarming as the fetishistic experiences they describe, and longer essays, more exhaustive critical meditations on writing, apprehension, and the nature of the modern. Rooted in remembrance, devoted to the kaleidoscopic intricacies of wordplay, Leiris draws from his own aesthetic experiences as writer and spectator to explore the fetish that “exposes and disarms the sinister passage of time,” conferring “an undeniable realness upon the whole by essentially causing it to crystallize in a reality it would never have possessed if that sturdy fragment hadn't acted as bait.”

How long is The Ribbon at Olympia's Throat?

The Ribbon at Olympia's Throat by Michel Leiris is 289 pages long, and a total of 74,851 words.

This makes it 98% the length of the average book. It also has 91% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Ribbon at Olympia's Throat Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 49 minutes to read The Ribbon at Olympia's Throat aloud.

What Reading Level is The Ribbon at Olympia's Throat?

The Ribbon at Olympia's Throat is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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