It takes the average reader 2 hours and 44 minutes to read Journey Through America by Wolfgang Koeppen
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
This volume by one of the best known German authors of the postwar period, is one of observation, analysis, and writing, and is based on his 1958 trip to the United States. Here the author presents a portrait of the United States in the late 1950s: its major cities, its literary culture, its troubled race relations, its multi-culturalism and its vast loneliness, a motif drawn, in part, from Kafka's Amerika. A modernist travelogue, the text employs symbol, myth, and image, as if the author sought to answer de Tocqueville's questions in the manner of Joyce and Kafka. It is also a meditation on...
Journey Through America by Wolfgang Koeppen is 159 pages long, and a total of 41,181 words.
This makes it 54% the length of the average book. It also has 50% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 45 minutes to read Journey Through America aloud.
Journey Through America is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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