All Desire is a Desire for Being by René Girard
Published 2023
How hard is All Desire is a Desire for Being to read?
All Desire is a Desire for Being scores 68 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: 68 out of 100
- Anthropological, theological and literary vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 68 out of 100
- Long French-inflected sentences.
- Abstraction: 85 out of 100
- A single abstract mechanism applied to everything.
- Information density: 75 out of 100
- A selection drawing on decades of work.
How All Desire is a Desire for Being is regarded
All Desire is a Desire for Being holds a literary regard score of 66 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.