My Work by Olga Ravn
Published 2023
How hard is My Work to read?
My Work scores 63 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
- Plain vocabulary across many forms.
- Sentence structure: 55 out of 100
- Fragments, poems, notes and narrative by turns.
- Abstraction: 65 out of 100
- Motherhood and writing treated as one abstract problem.
- Information density: 55 out of 100
- Light per fragment.
- Narrative indirection: 68 out of 100
- An author and a fictional Anna who may be the same person.
- Symbolic density: 55 out of 100
- The notebooks carry the argument.
- Ironic distance: 55 out of 100
- Constant distance between experience and its record.
- Resolution withholding: 72 out of 100
- Nothing resolves.
- Structural complexity: 78 out of 100
- Deliberately unsorted fragments in many genres.
How My Work is regarded
My Work holds a literary regard score of 38 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.