The Adversary: A True Story of Monstrous Deception by Emmanuel Carrère
Published 2002 · 57,200 words · about 4 hours at an average pace
How hard is The Adversary: A True Story of Monstrous Deception to read?
The Adversary: A True Story of Monstrous Deception scores 50 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 French, exactly translated.
- Sentence structure: 58 out of 100
- Controlled sentences of moderate length.
- Abstraction: 55 out of 100
- A concrete crime held at a reflective distance.
- Information density: 58 out of 100
- Steady; years of deception reconstructed.
How The Adversary: A True Story of Monstrous Deception is regarded
The Adversary: A True Story of Monstrous Deception holds a literary regard score of 59 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.