Time Regained by Marcel Proust
Published 1927 · 532 pages · 137,774 words · about 13 hours at an average pace · Literary Fiction
How hard is Time Regained to read?
Time Regained scores 78 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it very 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: 78 out of 100
- Proustian vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 85 out of 100
- Proustian sentences.
- Abstraction: 88 out of 100
- Time, memory, art.
- Information density: 75 out of 100
- French society.
- Narrative indirection: 80 out of 100
- Involuntary memory.
- Symbolic density: 82 out of 100
- Madeleine, time, art.
- Ironic distance: 65 out of 100
- Social observation.
- Resolution withholding: 70 out of 100
- Culmination, revelation.
- Structural complexity: 82 out of 100
- Novel about novel.
How Time Regained is regarded
Time Regained holds a literary regard score of 91 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.