How long does it take to read Gargoyles?
Gargoyles by Thomas Bernhard takes about 3 hours 49 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 49 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1967. 208 pages, about 57,200 words.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 21 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 49 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 23 minutes |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"One morning a doctor and his son set out on daily rounds through the grim mountainous Austrian countryside. They observe the colorful characters they encounter -- from an innkeeper whose wife has been murdered to a crippled musical prodigy kept in a cage -- coping with physical misery, madness, and the brutality of the austere landscape. The parade of human grotesques culminates in a hundred-page monologue by an eccentric, paranoid prince, a relentlessly flowing cascade of words that is classic Bernhard."-- Publisher description.
Subjects: Fiction, general, Germany, fiction, Physicians, Fiction, Fathers and sons
