How long does it take to read Castle to Castle?
Castle to Castle by Louis-Ferdinand Céline takes about 6 hours 35 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 35 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1957. 359 pages, about 98,725 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 58 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 35 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 7 minutes |
The page count is the median across 41 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A semi-autobiographical, hallucinatory novel about a swarming mass of human beings - Nazi collaborators, whores, fakers, mystics - herded together in the corridors of a dilapidated hotel at the end of World War II.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Physicians, Fiction, general, France, fiction, Fiction, historical, general