The Anthropologists by Ayşegül Savaş
Published 2024
How hard is The Anthropologists to read?
The Anthropologists scores 51 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: 48 out of 100
- Plain, careful vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 50 out of 100
- Short, quiet sentences.
- Abstraction: 55 out of 100
- Ordinary expatriate life observed as if by fieldwork.
- Information density: 48 out of 100
- Light on event.
- Narrative indirection: 52 out of 100
- A narrator watching her own life at a remove.
- Symbolic density: 52 out of 100
- The documentary and the flat carry the theme.
- Ironic distance: 48 out of 100
- Gentle distance between observation and participation.
- Resolution withholding: 62 out of 100
- Nothing much resolves, deliberately.
- Structural complexity: 45 out of 100
- Short chapters, loosely sequential.
How The Anthropologists is regarded
The Anthropologists holds a literary regard score of 36 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.