Dayspring by Anthony Oliveira
Published 2024 · 119,075 words · about 14 hours at an average pace
How hard is Dayspring to read?
Dayspring scores 73 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it very challenging. 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: 72 out of 100
- Scripture, theology, comics and pornography vocabulary in the same paragraphs.
- Sentence structure: 68 out of 100
- Fragments, lists and long incantatory passages by turns.
- Abstraction: 78 out of 100
- Theology and desire handled almost entirely figuratively.
- Information density: 72 out of 100
- Extremely allusive; almost every line points somewhere else.
- Narrative indirection: 72 out of 100
- The beloved disciple narrates across two thousand years, with no stable position.
- Symbolic density: 82 out of 100
- The book is built out of typology; almost nothing is literal.
- Ironic distance: 55 out of 100
- Reverence and blasphemy held together deliberately.
- Resolution withholding: 72 out of 100
- There is no resolution and none is sought.
- Structural complexity: 82 out of 100
- A collage of fragments, gospels, footnotes and lyric with no conventional spine.
How Dayspring is regarded
Dayspring 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.