The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić
Published 1945 · 314 pages · 133,261 words · about 9 hours at an average pace · Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
How hard is The Bridge on the Drina to read?
The Bridge on the Drina scores 57 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
- Serbo-Croatian, Ottoman.
- Sentence structure: 52 out of 100
- Andrić's clear prose.
- Abstraction: 60 out of 100
- History, cultures, fate.
- Information density: 62 out of 100
- Centuries of history.
- Narrative indirection: 55 out of 100
- Chronicle structure.
- Symbolic density: 65 out of 100
- Bridge, cultures.
- Ironic distance: 55 out of 100
- Historical perspective.
- Resolution withholding: 55 out of 100
- Bridge destroyed.
- Structural complexity: 55 out of 100
- Multi-century scope.
How The Bridge on the Drina is regarded
The Bridge on the Drina holds a literary regard score of 85 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.