White on White by Ayşegül Savaş
Published 2021 · 53,075 words · about 4 hours at an average pace
How hard is White on White to read?
White on White scores 56 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: 50 out of 100
- Plain, careful vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 52 out of 100
- Short, quiet sentences.
- Abstraction: 58 out of 100
- A portrait built from what the narrator will not say.
- Information density: 50 out of 100
- Light on event.
- Narrative indirection: 65 out of 100
- A narrator who withholds their own life entirely.
- Symbolic density: 58 out of 100
- The paintings and the flat carry the theme.
- Ironic distance: 52 out of 100
- Distance between the landlady's disclosures and the narrator's silence.
- Resolution withholding: 68 out of 100
- The narrator is never explained.
- Structural complexity: 48 out of 100
- A single winter, linear.
How White on White is regarded
White on White holds a literary regard score of 35 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.