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How Many Pages Are In The Lost Book?

2026-06-07 07:05:50

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Edwin

Why 'The Lost Book' is a mystery and so part of its charm: nobody knows how many pages ‘The Lost Book’ contains. Of course fans will differ on this topic. Some supporters of ‘The Lost Book’ seem to believe that it is a slim volume of some 50 odd pages of mostly poetic and part-prose material. But others are adamant that a huge – possibly unfinished – novel exists in draft form, of somewhere between 900 and 1,000 pages in length. Naturally I am fascinated by all of these speculations. One also finds reference to Salinger’s ‘uncompleted’ work or to ‘Cardenio’, that ‘lost’ play of Shakespeare’s.

I find it more plausible that the book is intentionally unfinished, in a state of limbo to be ‘lost’ for all eternity. The unfinishable nature of ‘The Lost Book’ is, to me, similar to Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves in that the physical form of the novel mirrors the ideas of disappearance and alterity which are at the core of the novel. It is the gaps that make for the most interesting stories and perhaps it is that which the author had in mind when writing ‘The Lost Book’.

2026-06-08

Paige

I have no idea how long ‘The Lost Book’ is supposed to be. Every so often someone comes up with a new reference to ‘The Lost Book’ – some obscure passage in a private diary, a footnote in a biography – and for a while they go round telling everyone that it was 10 pages long, or 1,000. It’s all a great story, far better than any actual number. And it remains unknowable, just like Schrödinger’s novel – 10 pages long, 1,000 pages long – until someone opens it. And no one ever will.

2026-06-11

Zara

I can get lost for hours pondering this – The Lost Book. It could be a single unfinished chapter, mired in the middle of a sentence, or a trio of novels condensed into one hefty tome. A 1987 zine reported that a librarian once got a glimpse of the 178-page manuscript, which then disintegrated into nothing. Horror at its worst. But as concepts go, I find The Lost Book fascinating. Much like a number of Borges short stories (specifically The Book of Sand, which has an infinite number of pages), The Lost Book exists primarily as an idea – perhaps something that defies numerical description altogether. And so it is tapped into again and again in endless discussion.

2026-06-11

Finn

We could be talking about ‘The Lost Book’ and its allegedly contentious page count depending on who you ask for the definitive answer. I guess that means there are people somewhere in the world counting the pages to 200. Then, of course, there are the conspiracy theorists pegging the tome at 666 pages. One über/amateur site went to great lengths to compile an, as yet, fairly fictionalized account of The Lost Book in the form of a 342-page long novel averaging out every single reference to the myth in modern pop culture. Yeah, I saw that on Reddit and couldn’t help but be utterly charmed and rather struck by the offhand almost completion of such a sweeping ‘opus.’ I wonder how many other such fictionalized accounts exist like that ‘lost’ screenplay to the classic Citizen Kane film – that got unearthed decades after the film itself – quite fora process of academic series mythos solidification. And yes, The Lost Book inspires innumerable tales of original fiction, quirky-themed and astounding podcasts, and even many fun indie games ‘unlocked’ after touted figuring out of some sort the supposed mythical lost content thereof.

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