How long does it take to read O Alienista?
O Alienista by Machado de Assis takes about 1 hour 50 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 50 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1981. 100 pages, about 27,500 words.
4 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 3 hours 3 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 50 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 9 minutes |
The page count is the median across 29 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Who's crazy? This is the question proposed in this book. In this narrative, Machado de Assis tells the story of the eminent Dr. Simão Bacamarte. Dedicated scholar of the human mind, the doctor decides to build a ' Green House '-a mental hospital to treat the mentally ill in the small town of Itaguaí. Machado leads to its history and maintains that everything is relative and that normality is not always what the science and the facts attest to absolute form.
Subjects: conto, Fiction, general, Fiction, Social life and customs, Brazilian Short stories, History
