La lenteur vs Scaramouche: Which Should You Read?
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La lenteur
“We suddenly had the urge to spend the evening and night in a chateau.”
After the gravity of The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Immortality, Slowness comes as a surprise: it is certainly Kundera's lightest novel, a divertimento, an opera buffa, with, as the author himself says, "not a…
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Scaramouche
Idealism can be transferred from one person to another on a vehicle called revenge. [from Wikipedia: Scaramouche tells the story of a young lawyer during the French Revolution. In the course of his adventures he…
1 film adaptation
The verdict
- Readers rate Scaramouche highest: Scaramouche 4.1 · La lenteur 3.8.
- La lenteur is the quickest read — about 2 hours vs 6 for Scaramouche.
- Scaramouche has the widest readership — 944 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| La lenteur | Scaramouche | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 4.1 (944) |
| Hardcover | 3.7 (7) | 3.8 (23) |
| Apple Books | — | 4.5 (78) |
Reception
| La lenteur | Scaramouche | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 8 | 944 |
| Editions | 29 | 255 |
| Film adaptations | — | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 17094 |
| Written reviews | — | 944 |
| Wikipedia attention | — | 1527 |
| Pages | 156 | 360 |