Unterwerfung by Michel Houellebecq

Published 2015 · 272 pages · 74,800 words · about 4 hours at an average pace

How hard is Unterwerfung to read?

Unterwerfung scores 27 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it relatively accessible. 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.

Where the story of Unterwerfung takes place

  • Paris, near-future France 2022, the main setting

About the author

Michel Houellebecq