How long does it take to read "53 Days"?
Georges Perec, Harry Mathews, Jacques Roubaud, David Bellos
"53 Days" by Georges Perec, Harry Mathews, Jacques Roubaud, David Bellos takes about 5 hours 25 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 25 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1989. 295 pages, about 81,125 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 1 minute |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 25 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 23 minutes |
The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Georges Perec planned a mystery novel of 28 chapters: he died before completing it. From his notebooks his friends assembled the elements of the unfinished part. The narrator is sent to the French colonies to teach maths - as well as being entrusted with tracking down an arms dealer.
Subjects: Fiction, general, Novelists, Fiction
