In Memoriam by Alice Winn
Published 2023 · 110,000 words · about 8 hours at an average pace
How hard is In Memoriam to read?
In Memoriam scores 53 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: 55 out of 100
- Period public-school and trench vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 55 out of 100
- Clear, well-made sentences.
- Abstraction: 50 out of 100
- Concrete war with a love story underneath.
- Information density: 58 out of 100
- Dense period detail.
- Narrative indirection: 48 out of 100
- Alternating close third persons, each concealing from the other.
- Symbolic density: 52 out of 100
- The school magazine and the Latin carry weight.
- Ironic distance: 55 out of 100
- Distance between what the letters say and what is meant.
- Resolution withholding: 58 out of 100
- The war resolves; the grief does not.
- Structural complexity: 48 out of 100
- Alternating viewpoints with inserted notices.
How In Memoriam is regarded
In Memoriam holds a literary regard score of 39 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.