How Long to Read To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life

How Long Does it Take to Read To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 36 minutes to read To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life by Herve Guibert

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

Description

A novel that describes, with devastating, darkly comic clarity, its narrator's experience of being diagnosed with AIDS. First published by Gallimard in 1990, To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life describes, with devastating, darkly comic clarity, its narrator's experience of being diagnosed with AIDS. Guibert chronicles three months in the penultimate year of the narrator's life as, in the wake of his friend Muzil's death, he goes from one quack doctor to another, describing the progression of the disease and recording the reactions of his many friends. The novel scandalized the French media, which quickly identified Muzil as Guibert's close friend Michel Foucault. To the Friend became a bestseller, and Guibert a celebrity. Guibert continued to document the daily experiences of his body in a series of novels and diaries, mostly published posthumously. To the Friend has since attained a cult following for its intimate and candid tone, its fragmented and slippery form. As Edmund White observed, “[Guibert's] very taste for the grotesque, this compulsion to offend, finally affords him the necessary rhetorical panache to convey the full, exhilarating horror of his predicament.” In his struggle to piece together a language suited to his suffering, Hervé Guibert catapulted himself into notoriety and sealed his reputation for uncompromising, transgressive prose.

How long is To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life?

To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life by Herve Guibert is 273 pages long, and a total of 69,069 words.

This makes it 92% the length of the average book. It also has 84% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 17 minutes to read To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life aloud.

What Reading Level is To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life?

To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life is suitable for students ages 12 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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