How long does it take to read The Red Book = Liber Novus?
The Red Book = Liber Novus by C. G. Jung takes about 10 hours 40 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 40 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2009. 582 pages, about 160,050 words.
22 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 17 hours 47 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 40 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 40 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
When Carl Jung embarked on an extended self-exploration, the result was "The Red Book," a large, illuminated volume he created between 1914 and 1930. However, only a handful of people had ever seen it. It has since been translated from the original Gerrman and is now it is available to scholars and the general public in both a large format version (40 cm. height) which includes facsimile reproduction of the handwritten German text and color illustrations, or the smaller "Reader's edition" (23 cm. height) which consists of the English translation and translator's notes.
Subjects: Jungian psychology, Biography, Psychoanalysts, Psychoanalysts, biography
