The Proust Project by André Aciman
Published 2004 · 60,775 words · about 4 hours at an average pace
How hard is The Proust Project to read?
The Proust Project scores 53 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: 62 out of 100
- Literary-critical vocabulary throughout.
- Sentence structure: 60 out of 100
- Essayistic sentences.
- Abstraction: 62 out of 100
- Close reading of passages, so quite abstract.
- Information density: 58 out of 100
- Twenty-eight separate essays.
How The Proust Project is regarded
The Proust Project holds a literary regard score of 39 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.