Von Beruf Schriftsteller by Haruki Murakami
Published 2016 · 241 pages · 66,275 words · about 3 hours at an average pace · Essays & Criticism, Memoir & Autobiography
How hard is Von Beruf Schriftsteller to read?
Von Beruf Schriftsteller scores 20 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.
- Vocabulary: 28 out of 100
- Murakami writes plain, conversational prose in these essays, with everyday words and almost no jargon. Even the craft discussion stays close to the register of The Diary of a Young Girl, though a little more reflective.
- Sentence structure: 28 out of 100
- Sentences are short, direct and spoken in feel, with simple clauses and occasional asides. Translated into German, the structure stays clear and unforced.
- Abstraction: 38 out of 100
- He ties ideas about originality and vocation to concrete anecdotes such as the baseball game, the kitchen table and his daily running. The abstractions stay light, in the manner of Atomic Habits.
- Information density: 30 out of 100
- Each essay develops one topic at a relaxed pace, with repetition and personal digressions. A reader takes in few new facts per page.
How Von Beruf Schriftsteller is regarded
Von Beruf Schriftsteller holds a literary regard score of 48 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.