How long does it take to read Lyrical and Critical?
Lyrical and Critical by Albert Camus takes about 6 hours 42 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 42 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1967. 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 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Concerned that he doesn’t “know any longer whether I’m living or remembering,” Camus tries to reconcile the intractable loss that is life, a digression which often reads more like prose poetry than essay.
Subjects: philosophy, modern, Fiction, short stories (single author), Essays
