How Long to Read Variations in the Key of K

How Long Does it Take to Read Variations in the Key of K?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 13 minutes to read Variations in the Key of K by Alex Stein

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

Description

"Variations, in the Key of K is a collection of, materially and thematically, interconnected stories featuring half-imagined, half-scholarly, renderings of historically significant artists, including: the self-tormenting Franz Kafka, who asks that, after his death, all his writings be burned; the indomitable Pablo Picasso and the poet/journalist/art thief, Guillaume Apollinaire, who is, for a time, Picasso's shadow; the esoteric William Blake, living in poverty and neglect, who must give over pieces of his art (masterpieces that, like the paintings of Van Gogh, will one day be esteemed as so valuable, no price can be put upon them) to pay the unscrupulous doctor who attends Blake's dying wife; the obsessed, opium-fevered, Antonin Artaud, whose theater performances shock and repel, just as they magnetize and engage (a recluse, a megalomaniac, a mystic and a lunatic, respectively). The title story begins with Kafka's desire to have his writing burned (to effectively erase himself from history), then reimagines some of Kafka's complicated family dynamic, but it also engages Kafka's other life, the one in which he earns his 1912 Stockholm Olympics silver medal in javelin throw. This collection is not easy to categorize. Are these lyrical tales about the passions and excesses of artists? Is this a critical exegesis (on identity-creation and the relationship between artists and the world--and on issues of critical reception, social reputation and genius) masquerading as fantasia? For whatever it is worth, the author of this collection thinks of this collection as documents of revelation and exercises in visionary biography"--

How long is Variations in the Key of K?

Variations in the Key of K by Alex Stein is 192 pages long, and a total of 48,384 words.

This makes it 65% the length of the average book. It also has 59% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Variations in the Key of K Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 24 minutes to read Variations in the Key of K aloud.

What Reading Level is Variations in the Key of K?

Variations in the Key of K 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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