A Love Affair by Dino Buzzati
Published 1964 · 67,925 words · about 5 hours at an average pace
How hard is A Love Affair to read?
A Love Affair 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: 52 out of 100
- Clear Italian, well translated.
- Sentence structure: 55 out of 100
- Measured sentences.
- Abstraction: 52 out of 100
- Concrete obsession, coolly observed.
- Information density: 50 out of 100
- Moderate.
- Narrative indirection: 55 out of 100
- A third person close to a man who cannot see himself.
- Symbolic density: 52 out of 100
- Milan and the apartment do quiet work.
- Ironic distance: 58 out of 100
- Steady distance between Antonio's dignity and his conduct.
- Resolution withholding: 55 out of 100
- The humiliation is complete but unexplained.
- Structural complexity: 45 out of 100
- Linear.
How A Love Affair is regarded
A Love Affair holds a literary regard score of 41 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.