How long does it take to read Illuminations?
Illuminations by Walter Benjamin takes about 5 hours 8 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 8 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1961. 280 pages, about 77,000 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 33 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 8 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 13 minutes |
The page count is the median across 29 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: History and criticism, Addresses, essays, lectures, Teoria Literaria, Philosophy, german, Literature, history and criticism, PHILOSOPHY
