Kant's Little Prussian Head & Other Reasons Why I Write

Time to Read
6 hrs 57 mins

Reading Time

6 hrs 57 mins

How long to read Kant's Little Prussian Head & Other Reasons Why I Write?

The estimated word count of Kant's Little Prussian Head & Other Reasons Why I Write is 104,160 words.

A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 6 hrs 57 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 11 hrs 35 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 3 hrs 52 mins.

Kant's Little Prussian Head & Other Reasons Why I Write - 104,160 words
Reading Speed Time to Read
Slow 150 words/min 11 hrs 35 mins
Average 250 words/min 6 hrs 57 mins
Fast 450 words/min 3 hrs 52 mins
Kant's Little Prussian Head & Other Reasons Why I Write by Claire Messud
Authors
Claire Messud

More about Kant's Little Prussian Head & Other Reasons Why I Write

104,160 words

Word Count

for Kant's Little Prussian Head & Other Reasons Why I Write

336 pages

Pages
Hardcover: 336 pages

11 hours and 12 minutes

Audiobook length


Description

A glimpse into a beloved novelist’s inner world, shaped by family, art, and literature.In her fiction, Claire Messud "has specialized in creating unusual female characters with ferocious, imaginative inner lives" (Ruth Franklin, New York Times Magazine). Kant’s Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write opens a window on Messud’s own life: a peripatetic upbringing; a warm, complicated family; and, throughout it all, her devotion to art and literature.In twenty-six intimate, brilliant, and funny essays, Messud reflects on a childhood move from her Connecticut home to Australia; the complex relationship between her modern Canadian mother and a fiercely single French Catholic aunt; and a trip to Beirut, where her pied-noir father had once lived, while he was dying. She meditates on contemporary classics from Kazuo Ishiguro, Teju Cole, Rachel Cusk, and Valeria Luiselli; examines three facets of Albert Camus and The Stranger; and tours her favorite paintings at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. In the luminous title essay, she explores her drive to write, born of the magic of sharing language and the transformative powers of “a single successful sentence.”Together, these essays show the inner workings of a dazzling literary mind. Crafting a vivid portrait of a life in celebration of the power of literature, Messud proves once again "an absolute master storyteller" (Rebecca Carroll, Los Angeles Times).