How Long to Read Berlin Alexanderplatz

How Long Does it Take to Read Berlin Alexanderplatz?

It takes the average reader 8 hours and 2 minutes to read Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Doblin

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

Description

The inspiration for Rainer Werner Fassbinder's epic film and that The Guardian named one of the "Top 100 Books of All Time," Berlin Alexanderplatz is considered one of the most important works of the Weimar Republic and twentieth century literature. Berlin Alexanderplatz, the great novel of Berlin and the doomed Weimar Republic, is one of the great books of the twentieth century, gruesome, farcical, and appalling, word drunk, pitchdark. In Michael Hofmann's extraordinary new translation, Alfred Döblin's masterpiece lives in English for the first time. As Döblin writes in the opening pages: The subject of this book is the life of the former cement worker and haulier Franz Biberkopf in Berlin. As our story begins, he has just been released from prison, where he did time for some stupid stuff; now he is back in Berlin, determined to go straight. To begin with, he succeeds. But then, though doing all right for himself financially, he gets involved in a set-to with an unpredictable external agency that looks an awful lot like fate. Three times the force attacks him and disrupts his scheme. The first time it comes at him with dishonesty and deception. Our man is able to get to his feet, he is still good to stand. Then it strikes him a low blow. He has trouble getting up from that, he is almost counted out. And finally it hits him with monstrous and extreme violence.

How long is Berlin Alexanderplatz?

Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Doblin is 481 pages long, and a total of 120,731 words.

This makes it 162% the length of the average book. It also has 148% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Berlin Alexanderplatz Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 59 minutes to read Berlin Alexanderplatz aloud.

What Reading Level is Berlin Alexanderplatz?

Berlin Alexanderplatz 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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