How long does it take to read Zama?
Antonio Di Benedetto, Armando Duran, Esther Allen
Zama by Antonio Di Benedetto, Armando Duran, Esther Allen takes about 4 hours 31 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 31 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1956. 246 pages, about 67,650 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 31 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 31 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 49 minutes |
The page count is the median across 17 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"First published in 1956, Zama is now universally recognized as one of the masterpieces of modern Argentinean and Spanish-language literature. Written in a style that is both precise and sumptuous, Zama takes place in the last decade of the eighteenth century and describes the solitary, suspended existence of Don Diego de Zama, a highly placed servant of the Spanish crown who has been posted to Asunción, the capital of remote Paraguay. Eaten up by pride, lust, petty grudges, and paranoid fantasies, Don Diego does as little as he possibly can while plotting an eventual transfer to Buenos Aires, where everything about his hopeless existence will, he is confident, be miraculously transformed and made good. Don Diego's slow, nightmarish slide into the abyss is not just a tale of one man's perdition but an exploration of existential, and very American, loneliness. Zama's stark, dreamlike prose and spare imagery make every word appear to emerge from an ocean of things left unsaid"--
Subjects: Fiction, FICTION / Historical, FICTION / Literary, Fiction, historical, Historical, Literary
