How long does it take to read Voices?
Antonio Porchia
Voices by Antonio Porchia takes about 1 hour 51 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 51 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1943. 101 pages, about 27,775 words.
4 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 3 hours 5 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 51 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 9 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Antonio Porchia (1886–1968) wrote one book, a slender collection of poetic aphorisms that became a classic in the Spanish-speaking world. With affinities to Taoist and Buddhist epigrams, Voices bears witness to the awe of human existence. Revised and updated with a new introduction by translator W.S. Merwin, this bilingual volume brings back into print one of Latin America’s great literary treasures. He who tells the truth says almost nothing. * I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received. * Only a few arrive at nothing, because the way is long. * Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years. * When I come upon some idea that is not of this world, I feel as though this world had grown wider. * This world understands nothing but words, and you have come into it with almost none. * We become aware of the void as we fill it.
Subjects: Aphorisms and apothegms
