Confessions by Kanae Minato
Published 2015 · 88,000 words · about 7 hours at an average pace
How hard is Confessions to read?
Confessions scores 58 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: 45 out of 100
- Plain Japanese, plainly translated.
- Sentence structure: 45 out of 100
- Short, cool sentences.
- Abstraction: 48 out of 100
- Concrete revenge, coldly narrated.
- Information density: 52 out of 100
- Moderate.
- Narrative indirection: 78 out of 100
- Six narrators who contradict each other about the same death.
- Symbolic density: 48 out of 100
- The milk and the classroom carry weight.
- Ironic distance: 62 out of 100
- Each confession undercuts the last.
- Resolution withholding: 55 out of 100
- The final version is deliberately unverifiable.
- Structural complexity: 68 out of 100
- Six successive confessions.
How Confessions is regarded
Confessions holds a literary regard score of 33 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.