Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges by Jorge Luis Borges
Published 1962 · 78,650 words · about 5 hours at an average pace
How hard is Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges to read?
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges scores 77 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it very 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: 75 out of 100
- Erudite and deliberately archaic, with invented terminology.
- Sentence structure: 72 out of 100
- Formal, precise, Latinate sentences.
- Abstraction: 88 out of 100
- Infinity, identity and time treated as fiction's subject matter.
- Information density: 82 out of 100
- Extraordinarily dense — a story can carry a library.
- Narrative indirection: 68 out of 100
- Frequently framed as reviews, footnotes and reports by unreliable scholars.
- Symbolic density: 82 out of 100
- The labyrinth, the mirror and the library run through everything.
- Ironic distance: 72 out of 100
- Sustained scholarly deadpan about invented sources.
- Resolution withholding: 78 out of 100
- Most stories end on a paradox rather than an answer.
- Structural complexity: 82 out of 100
- Fictions disguised as essays, reviews and encyclopaedia entries.
How Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges is regarded
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges holds a literary regard score of 94 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.