How long does it take to read The Savage Detectives?
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño takes about 11 hours 22 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 11 hours 22 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1998. 620 pages, about 170,500 words.
23 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 18 hours 57 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 22 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 6 minutes |
The page count is the median across 50 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Una clave más del universo literario de Roberto Bolaño, uno de los escritores imprescindibles de la literatura contemporánea en español. Este volumen incluye tres nouvelles inéditas -"Patria", "Sepulcros de vaqueros" y "Comedia del horror de Francia"- en las que está presente lo mejor del genio literario del autor chileno: el Mal, la violencia, la historia, la literatura, la ironía, México, Chile, el amor, el suspense, la búsqueda... a lo que se suma alguno de sus personajes más célebres, como el ubicuo detective salvaje Arturo Belano. English translation of Spanish summary: One more key to the literary universe of Roberto Bolaño, one of the essential writers of Spanish contemporary literature. This volume includes three unpublished novellas - "Patria," "Sepulcros de vaqueros," and "Comedia del horror de Francia" -- in which the best of the literary genius of the Chilean author is present: evil, violence, history, literature , irony, Mexico, Chile, love, suspense, search ... to which is added some of his most famous characters, such as the ubiquitous wild detective Arturo Belano
Subjects: Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Mexico city (mexico), fiction, Authors, fiction, Fiction, Fugitives from justice, Latin American poetry
