Man's Fate by André Malraux
Published 1933 · 287 pages · 85,672 words · about 6 hours at an average pace · Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
How hard is Man's Fate to read?
Man's Fate 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: 58 out of 100
- Political and philosophical vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 58 out of 100
- Dense philosophical prose.
- Abstraction: 68 out of 100
- Revolution and meaning.
- Information density: 60 out of 100
- Dense Shanghai uprising.
- Narrative indirection: 55 out of 100
- Multiple revolutionaries.
- Symbolic density: 62 out of 100
- Revolution as existential.
- Ironic distance: 55 out of 100
- Tragic irony.
- Resolution withholding: 58 out of 100
- Tragic conclusions.
- Structural complexity: 55 out of 100
- Multi-protagonist tragedy.
How Man's Fate is regarded
Man's Fate holds a literary regard score of 78 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.