And Suddenly It's Evening by Salvatore Quasimodo
Published 1942 · 269 pages · 4,200 words · Poetry
How hard is And Suddenly It's Evening to read?
And Suddenly It's Evening scores 55 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: 50 out of 100
- Dense Italian poetic vocabulary in translation.
- Sentence structure: 55 out of 100
- Compressed poetic syntax.
- Abstraction: 65 out of 100
- Existential meditations in compressed form.
- Information density: 55 out of 100
- Dense with compressed meaning.
- Narrative indirection: 60 out of 100
- Poetry implies rather than states.
- Symbolic density: 65 out of 100
- Every image carries symbolic weight.
- Ironic distance: 45 out of 100
- Quasimodo writes with lyrical seriousness.
- Resolution withholding: 60 out of 100
- Poetry offers meditations, not resolutions.
- Structural complexity: 40 out of 100
- Poetry collection.
How And Suddenly It's Evening is regarded
And Suddenly It's Evening holds a literary regard score of 73 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.