How long does it take to read Narrative Discourse?
An Essay in Method
Gérard Genette
Narrative Discourse by Gérard Genette takes about 5 hours 14 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 14 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1979. 285 pages, about 78,375 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 43 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 14 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 16 minutes |
The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Genette uses Proust's Remembrance of Things Past as a work to identify and name the basic constituents and techniques of narrative. Genette illustrates the examples by referring to other literary works. His systemic theory of narrative deals with the structure of fiction, including fictional devices that go unnoticed and whose implications fulfill the Western narrative tradition.
Subjects: Technique, Criticism and interpretation, Fiction, Narrative Discourse analysis, Discourse analysis, Narrative, Narration (Rhetoric)
