Notes on 'Camp' by Susan Sontag
Published 2018 · 10,175 words · about 1 hour at an average pace
How hard is Notes on 'Camp' to read?
Notes on 'Camp' scores 62 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: 62 out of 100
- Critical vocabulary, plus a great many proper names assumed rather than explained.
- Sentence structure: 50 out of 100
- Short numbered notes; the sentences themselves are clean.
- Abstraction: 78 out of 100
- An attempt to define a sensibility, which is about as abstract as criticism gets.
- Information density: 70 out of 100
- Fifty-eight numbered fragments, each carrying a separate claim.
How Notes on 'Camp' is regarded
Notes on 'Camp' holds a literary regard score of 89 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.