The End of Eddy by Édouard Louis
Published 2017 · 192 pages · 52,800 words · about 3 hours at an average pace
How hard is The End of Eddy to read?
The End of Eddy scores 47 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it moderately challenging. 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: 45 out of 100
- Plain, with reported village dialect in italics.
- Sentence structure: 45 out of 100
- Short, flat sentences.
- Abstraction: 52 out of 100
- Concrete childhood analysed sociologically as it is narrated.
- Information density: 52 out of 100
- Moderate.
- Narrative indirection: 52 out of 100
- A narrator who keeps interrupting his own memories to explain them.
- Symbolic density: 45 out of 100
- Restrained.
- Ironic distance: 48 out of 100
- Distance between the boy's experience and the sociologist's account of it.
- Resolution withholding: 48 out of 100
- The escape is achieved but the damage is not resolved.
- Structural complexity: 42 out of 100
- Linear with analytic interruptions.
How The End of Eddy is regarded
The End of Eddy holds a literary regard score of 54 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.