The Door by Magda Szabo by Magda Szabó
Published 1987 · 61,325 words · about 5 hours at an average pace · Literary Fiction, Psychology
How hard is The Door by Magda Szabo to read?
The Door by Magda Szabo scores 58 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: 52 out of 100
- Plain Hungarian, well translated.
- Sentence structure: 58 out of 100
- Long, circling sentences.
- Abstraction: 55 out of 100
- A domestic relationship carrying a moral argument.
- Information density: 55 out of 100
- Moderate.
- Narrative indirection: 68 out of 100
- A narrator confessing a betrayal she cannot fully face.
- Symbolic density: 62 out of 100
- The door itself carries almost everything.
- Ironic distance: 55 out of 100
- Steady distance between her self-account and her conduct.
- Resolution withholding: 62 out of 100
- The guilt is stated but never resolved.
- Structural complexity: 48 out of 100
- A retrospective confession.
How The Door by Magda Szabo is regarded
The Door by Magda Szabo holds a literary regard score of 59 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.
Where the story of The Door by Magda Szabo takes place
- Budapest, 1960s-1980s (1960 to 1980), the main setting