How long does it take to read Life Is Elsewhere?
Life Is Elsewhere by Milan Kundera takes about 6 hours 14 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 14 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1973. 340 pages, about 93,500 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 23 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 14 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 54 minutes |
The page count is the median across 38 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A young Czech whose mother has molded him into a poet becomes the people's literary hero during a Communist rally in 1948.
Subjects: Fiction, Mothers and sons, Czech fiction, French fiction, Chang pian xiao shuo, Mutter
