Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo
Published 1970 · 198 pages · 22,000 words · about 1 hour at an average pace · Drama, Satire & Humor
How hard is Accidental Death of an Anarchist to read?
Accidental Death of an Anarchist scores 47 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it moderately challenging. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 35 out of 100
- Theatrical Italian in translation, accessible political satire.
- Sentence structure: 38 out of 100
- Rapid-fire dialogue and farcical exchanges.
- Abstraction: 45 out of 100
- Political critique through theatrical farce.
- Information density: 40 out of 100
- Dense with political reference and satirical content.
- Narrative indirection: 45 out of 100
- Farce makes serious points through misdirection.
- Symbolic density: 50 out of 100
- The Maniac, the police, the death all symbolic.
- Ironic distance: 65 out of 100
- Fo's satire is relentless and biting.
- Resolution withholding: 50 out of 100
- Multiple endings; truth remains contested.
- Structural complexity: 40 out of 100
- Farcical play structure with political purpose.
How Accidental Death of an Anarchist is regarded
Accidental Death of an Anarchist holds a literary regard score of 67 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.