How long does it take to read Explosion in a Cathedral?
Explosion in a Cathedral by Alejo Carpentier takes about 6 hours 42 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 42 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1962. 365 pages, about 100,375 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 9 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 42 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 11 minutes |
The page count is the median across 55 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Los avatares del comerciante marsellés Victor Hugues en el Caribe y en un París convulsionado por la Revolución son el tema central de El sigo de las luces, una novela tan fascinante como ambiciosa en la que historia y ficción confunden sus límites.
Subjects: Fiction, Written Spanish, Spanish fiction, Caribbean area, fiction, Fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, historical, general
