Too Much of Life: Complete Chronicles by Clarice Lispector
Published 2022
How hard is Too Much of Life: Complete Chronicles to read?
Too Much of Life: Complete Chronicles scores 59 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
- Plain words used strangely, as always with her.
- Sentence structure: 58 out of 100
- Short columns, but the syntax often refuses to settle.
- Abstraction: 72 out of 100
- Everyday subjects turning abruptly metaphysical.
- Information density: 55 out of 100
- Light per column, dense in accumulation.
- Narrative indirection: 58 out of 100
- A public persona that keeps slipping.
- Symbolic density: 68 out of 100
- Ordinary objects turn figurative without warning.
- Ironic distance: 55 out of 100
- Frequent turns against her own statements.
- Resolution withholding: 68 out of 100
- Columns end mid-thought by design.
- Structural complexity: 45 out of 100
- Hundreds of short pieces across two decades.
How Too Much of Life: Complete Chronicles is regarded
Too Much of Life: Complete Chronicles holds a literary regard score of 62 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.