How Long to Read Conversations with Kafka (Second Edition)

How Long Does it Take to Read Conversations with Kafka (Second Edition)?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 55 minutes to read Conversations with Kafka (Second Edition) by Gustav Janouch

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

Description

A literary gem – a portrait from life of Franz Kafka – now with an ardent preface by Francine Prose, avowed “fan of Janouch’s odd and beautiful book.” Gustav Janouch met Franz Kafka, the celebrated author of The Metamorphosis, as a seventeen-year-old fledgling poet. As Francine Prose notes in her wonderful preface, “they fell into the habit of taking long strolls through the city, strolls on which Kafka seems to have said many amazing, incisive, literary, and per- things to his companion and interlocutor, the teenage Boswell of Prague. Crossing a windswept square, apropos of something or other, Kafka tells Janouch, ‘Life is infinitely great and profound as the immensity of the stars above us. One can only look at it through the narrow keyhole of one’s personal experience. But through it one perceives more than one can see. So above all one must keep the keyhole clean.’” They talk about writing (Kafka’s own, but also that of his favorite writers: Poe, Kleist, and Rimbaud, who “transforms vowels into colors”) as well as technology, film, crime, Darwinism, Chinese philosophy, carpentry, insomnia, street fights, Hindu scripture, art, suicide, and prayer. “Prayer,” Kafka notes, brings “its infinite radiance to bed in the frail little cradle of one’s own existence.”

How long is Conversations with Kafka (Second Edition)?

Conversations with Kafka (Second Edition) by Gustav Janouch is 228 pages long, and a total of 58,824 words.

This makes it 77% the length of the average book. It also has 72% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Conversations with Kafka (Second Edition) Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 21 minutes to read Conversations with Kafka (Second Edition) aloud.

What Reading Level is Conversations with Kafka (Second Edition)?

Conversations with Kafka (Second Edition) 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.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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