How Long to Read Lenz

How Long Does it Take to Read Lenz?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 26 minutes to read Lenz by Georg Buchner

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

Description

Lenz, Georg Büchner’s visionary exploration of an 18th-century playwright’s descent into madness, has been called the inception of European modernist prose. Elias Canetti considered this short novella one of the decisive reading experiences of his life, and writers as various as Paul Celan, Christa Wolff, Peter Schneider, and Gert Hofmann have paid homage to it in their works. Published posthumously in 1839, Lenz provides a taut case study of three weeks in the life of schizophrenic, perhaps the first third-person text ever to be written from the "inside" of insanity. An early experiment in...

How long is Lenz?

Lenz by Georg Buchner is 199 pages long, and a total of 51,541 words.

This makes it 67% the length of the average book. It also has 63% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Lenz Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 41 minutes to read Lenz aloud.

What Reading Level is Lenz?

Lenz 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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