Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey by Elena Ferrante
Published 2017 · 110,000 words · about 7 hours at an average pace
How hard is Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey to read?
Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey scores 53 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. 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: 58 out of 100
- Literary vocabulary in translation.
- Sentence structure: 60 out of 100
- Long sentences, many in letter form.
- Abstraction: 62 out of 100
- Writing and identity treated abstractly.
- Information density: 62 out of 100
- A gathering of letters and interviews, uneven.
How Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey is regarded
Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey holds a literary regard score of 53 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.