How Long to Read A Postmortem Dream

How Long Does it Take to Read A Postmortem Dream?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 10 minutes to read A Postmortem Dream by Ladislav Klima

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

Description

One of Ladislav Klíma's most famous ghost stories, A Postmortem Dream is an unfinished novella about Matthias Lebermayer, a corpulent provincial shopkeeper who is either dead or dreaming (while passed out drunk), or maybe both, simultaneously experiencing past and future lives as himself and as someone else. As he tries to work out where the borders of reality lie, if he's dreaming, awake, or indeed dead, he is continually haunted by a mysterious man in a shabby checkered suit who utters the strange words: "Five fields I have passed," triggering overwhelming dread as well as dislocations in time and space. Lebermayer has no idea what the words could mean, but more clues are revealed as his life bleeds into another. With echoes of Poe and Plato's Myth of Er, Klíma tells his tale of horror with great brio and humor.Initially only the first part was published in a magazine in 1920 with a sort of coda tacked on, and this was how all subsequent printings in Czech appeared over the next 70 years. But Klíma had also written a second part and included notes on how the novella was to be continued, which remained among his unpublished manuscripts. This translation includes all extant material along with illustrations created by Pavel Rut exclusively for this one-time only limited edition.

How long is A Postmortem Dream?

A Postmortem Dream by Ladislav Klima is 70 pages long, and a total of 17,500 words.

This makes it 24% the length of the average book. It also has 21% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read A Postmortem Dream Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 35 minutes to read A Postmortem Dream aloud.

What Reading Level is A Postmortem Dream?

A Postmortem Dream is suitable for students ages 8 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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