Simone Weil: An Anthology by Simone Weil
Published 1986 · 79,750 words · about 5 hours at an average pace
How hard is Simone Weil: An Anthology to read?
Simone Weil: An Anthology scores 71 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: 68 out of 100
- Theological, classical and philosophical vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 68 out of 100
- Compressed aphorisms alongside long essays.
- Abstraction: 88 out of 100
- Affliction, grace and attention treated at the highest abstraction.
- Information density: 78 out of 100
- Extremely compressed; a line can carry an essay.
How Simone Weil: An Anthology is regarded
Simone Weil: An Anthology holds a literary regard score of 77 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.