Como Mudar o Mundo by Eric J. Hobsbawm
Published 2011 · 124,025 words · about 9 hours at an average pace · History, Politics & Society, Essays & Criticism
How hard is Como Mudar o Mundo to read?
Como Mudar o Mundo scores 57 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
- Hobsbawm writes lucid academic English, translated here into Portuguese, with political and historical terms such as hegemony, mode of production and social democracy. It is more demanding than a popular history but far from obscure, closer to The Great Gatsby in register than to Gravity's Rainbow.
- Sentence structure: 55 out of 100
- His sentences run long and balance several clauses, in the manner of a European historian-essayist. They stay orderly and controlled, with none of the fragmentation of modernist prose.
- Abstraction: 68 out of 100
- The book works through theory, ideology and the history of ideas, grounded in dated events such as 1848, the Second International and 2008. Concepts drive each essay more than anecdotes do.
- Information density: 70 out of 100
- Each essay packs names, dates, texts and debates across 150 years of Marxist history. The reader must keep many figures and controversies in view at once.
How Como Mudar o Mundo is regarded
Como Mudar o Mundo holds a literary regard score of 59 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.