A Luminous Republic by Andrés Barba
Published 2020 · 58,025 words · about 4 hours at an average pace
How hard is A Luminous Republic to read?
A Luminous Republic scores 62 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
- Formal Spanish, precisely translated.
- Sentence structure: 58 out of 100
- Controlled, cool sentences.
- Abstraction: 62 out of 100
- Concrete events carrying a political allegory.
- Information density: 55 out of 100
- Moderate.
- Narrative indirection: 68 out of 100
- An official recounting his own failure twenty years later.
- Symbolic density: 68 out of 100
- The children and the jungle are sustained figures.
- Ironic distance: 55 out of 100
- Steady distance between his account and his conduct.
- Resolution withholding: 72 out of 100
- What the children were is never explained.
- Structural complexity: 55 out of 100
- A retrospective official account.
How A Luminous Republic is regarded
A Luminous Republic holds a literary regard score of 40 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.