The House of Scorta by Laurent Gaudé
Published 2004 · 240 pages · 67,000 words · about 5 hours at an average pace · Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
How hard is The House of Scorta to read?
The House of Scorta 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: 52 out of 100
- Italian and Goncourt vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 52 out of 100
- Clear saga prose.
- Abstraction: 55 out of 100
- Family and fate.
- Information density: 55 out of 100
- Southern Italy detail.
- Narrative indirection: 50 out of 100
- Third-person saga.
- Symbolic density: 55 out of 100
- Sun and scorpion.
- Ironic distance: 52 out of 100
- Saga distance.
- Resolution withholding: 52 out of 100
- Generational arc.
- Structural complexity: 55 out of 100
- Family saga structure.
How The House of Scorta is regarded
The House of Scorta holds a literary regard score of 62 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.