How long does it take to read Tristessa?
Jack Kerouac, Antonio-Prometeo Moya Valle
Tristessa by Jack Kerouac, Antonio-Prometeo Moya Valle takes about 2 hours 3 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 3 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1960. 112 pages, about 30,800 words.
5 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 3 hours 25 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 3 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 17 minutes |
The page count is the median across 20 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Tristessa is a novella by Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac set in Mexico City. It is based on his relationship with a Mexican prostitute (the title character). The woman's real name was Esperanza ("hope" in Spanish); Kerouac changed her name to Tristessa ("tristeza" means sadness in Spanish and Portuguese).
Subjects: Beat Generation, Fiction, Beats (Persons), Prostitutes, Drug abuse
