How long does it take to read The Diaries of Franz Kafka?
The Diaries of Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka takes about 9 hours 55 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 55 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1937. 541 pages, about 148,775 words.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 32 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 55 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 12 minutes |
The page count is the median across 76 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
These diaries cover the years 1910 to 1923, the year before Kafka’s death at the age of forty. They provide a penetrating look into life in Prague and into Kafka’s accounts of his dreams, his feelings for the father he worshipped and the woman he could not bring himself to marry, his sense of guilt, and his feelings of being an outcast. They offer an account of a life of almost unbearable intensity.
Subjects: Diaries, Austrian Authors, Biography, Authors, biography, Biography & Autobiography, Nonfiction
