Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico
Published 2022 · 84,700 words · about 7 hours at an average pace · Literary Fiction, Satire & Humor
How hard is Perfection to read?
Perfection scores 61 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
- Flat, catalogue-like vocabulary, deliberately.
- Sentence structure: 55 out of 100
- Long, listing sentences.
- Abstraction: 62 out of 100
- A generation described almost entirely through its objects.
- Information density: 55 out of 100
- Dense with brand and interior detail.
- Narrative indirection: 62 out of 100
- A cool third person that never enters the couple.
- Symbolic density: 62 out of 100
- The apartment and the plants are the argument.
- Ironic distance: 72 out of 100
- Sustained irony; the flatness is the critique.
- Resolution withholding: 68 out of 100
- Nothing is resolved.
- Structural complexity: 52 out of 100
- Linear, patterned on Perec.
How Perfection is regarded
Perfection holds a literary regard score of 34 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.