How long does it take to read Kaputt?
Curzio Malaparte
Kaputt by Curzio Malaparte takes about 8 hours 1 minute to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 1 minute
A week or two of reading
First published 1946. 437 pages, about 120,175 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 21 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 1 minute |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours |
The page count is the median across 23 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Curzio Malaparte was a disaffected supporter of Mussolini with a taste for danger and high living. Sent by an Italian paper during World War II to cover the fighting on the Eastern Front, Malaparte secretly wrote this terrifying report from the abyss, which became an international bestseller when it was published after the war. Telling of the siege of Leningrad, of glittering dinner parties with Nazi leaders, and of trains disgorging bodies in war-devastated Romania, Malaparte paints a picture of humanity at its most depraved."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Biography, Fiction, Italian Personal narratives, Personal narratives, Italian, War correspondents, Roman italien
