The Bonds of Interest by Jacinto Benavente
Published 1907 · 700 pages · 23,500 words · about 3 hours at an average pace · Drama
How hard is The Bonds of Interest to read?
The Bonds of Interest scores 52 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
- Spanish commedia.
- Sentence structure: 50 out of 100
- Benavente's dramatic prose.
- Abstraction: 55 out of 100
- Greed, love, society.
- Information density: 50 out of 100
- Commedia setting.
- Narrative indirection: 48 out of 100
- Direct drama.
- Symbolic density: 55 out of 100
- Bonds, interest.
- Ironic distance: 58 out of 100
- Social satire.
- Resolution withholding: 48 out of 100
- Comic resolution.
- Structural complexity: 48 out of 100
- Three-act comedy.
How The Bonds of Interest is regarded
The Bonds of Interest holds a literary regard score of 61 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.