How long does it take to read The Vivisector?
The Vivisector by Patrick White takes about 11 hours 19 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 11 hours 19 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1970. 617 pages, about 169,675 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 51 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 19 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 4 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Hurtle Duffield, a painter, coldly dissects the weaknesses of any and all who enter his circle. His sister's deformity, a grocer's moonlight indiscretion, the passionate illusions of the women who love him—all are used as fodder for his art. It is only when Hurtle meets an egocentric adolescent whom he sees as his spiritual child does he experience a deeper, more treacherous emotion in this tour de force of sexual and psychological menace that sheds brutally honest light on the creative experience.
Subjects: Painters, Fiction, Man-woman relationships, Artists, Fiction, general, Artists, fiction
