How Long to Read The Trial of Gilles de Rais

How Long Does it Take to Read The Trial of Gilles de Rais?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 3 minutes to read The Trial of Gilles de Rais by Georges Bataille

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

Description

Georges Bataille presents the case of the most infamous villain of the Middle Ages: Gilles de Rais. Fascinated with the depths of human experience--the meeting points of sexuality, violence, ritual, spirituality, and death--Bataille examines with dispassionate clarity the legendary crimes, trials and confessions of this grotesque and still-horrifying 15th-century child-murderer, sadist, alchemist, necrophile and practitioner of the Black Arts. Gilles de Rais began his remarkable career as lieutenant to the devout martyr and saint Joan of Arc; after her execution, he fled to his estates in the countryside of France, where he began to ritually slaughter hundreds of children. After his arrest and subsequent trials, he was hanged and burned at Nantes, France on October 25, 1440. The latter section of The Trial of Gilles de Rais consists of the actual ecclesiastical and secular trial transcripts, annotated by Bataille, and translated from the ecclesiastical Latin by Pierre Klossowski.

How long is The Trial of Gilles de Rais?

The Trial of Gilles de Rais by Georges Bataille is 296 pages long, and a total of 75,776 words.

This makes it 100% the length of the average book. It also has 93% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Trial of Gilles de Rais Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 54 minutes to read The Trial of Gilles de Rais aloud.

What Reading Level is The Trial of Gilles de Rais?

The Trial of Gilles de Rais is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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