Separate Rooms by Pier Vittorio Tondelli
Published 1994 · 52,800 words · about 4 hours at an average pace
How hard is Separate Rooms to read?
Separate Rooms 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: 58 out of 100
- Literary Italian, well translated.
- Sentence structure: 62 out of 100
- Long, circling sentences.
- Abstraction: 62 out of 100
- Grief examined at a high level of reflection.
- Information density: 55 out of 100
- Light on event.
- Narrative indirection: 62 out of 100
- A narrator circling a death he will not approach directly.
- Symbolic density: 58 out of 100
- The separate rooms are the governing figure.
- Ironic distance: 48 out of 100
- Some distance between his self-account and his evasion.
- Resolution withholding: 68 out of 100
- The grief is not resolved.
- Structural complexity: 72 out of 100
- Three movements circling the same loss.
How Separate Rooms is regarded
Separate Rooms holds a literary regard score of 45 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.