This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud
Published 2024 · 448 pages · 112,000 words · about 12 hours at an average pace · Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
How hard is This Strange Eventful History to read?
This Strange Eventful History 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: 58 out of 100
- French-Algerian vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 58 out of 100
- Clear prose.
- Abstraction: 62 out of 100
- Colonial history, family.
- Information density: 62 out of 100
- Pied-noir history.
- Narrative indirection: 58 out of 100
- Third person.
- Symbolic density: 58 out of 100
- History, strangeness.
- Ironic distance: 52 out of 100
- Engaged family saga.
- Resolution withholding: 55 out of 100
- Generations pass.
- Structural complexity: 58 out of 100
- Generational narrative.
How This Strange Eventful History is regarded
This Strange Eventful History holds a literary regard score of 60 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.