How long does it take to read Cosmos?
Cosmos by Witold Gombrowicz takes about 3 hours 3 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 3 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1965. 166 pages, about 45,650 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 4 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 3 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 54 minutes |
The page count is the median across 15 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A dark, quasi-detective novel, "Cosmos "follows the classic noir motif to explore the arbitrariness of language, the joke of human freedom, and man's attempt to bring order out of chaos in his psychological life.
Subjects: Fiction, Polish fiction, Mystery and detective stories, Psychological thriller
