How long does it take to read Being and Nothingness?
Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre takes about 13 hours 8 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 13 hours 8 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1943. 716 pages, about 196,900 words.
27 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 21 hours 53 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 13 hours 8 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 12 minutes |
The page count is the median across 86 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
missing pages xiv and xv
Subjects: Existential psychology, Existentialism, Ontology, Phénoménologie, Ontologie, Existentialisme