/lit/ - Literature

punch him in the face and throw him off a cliff

After seeing so many anons praising it, I decided to try reading The Book of the New Sun yesterday.

It went well at first, but I quickly realized that the english was often too advanced for me to understand and there were at least 3 (usually more) words per page that I had to translate. This, coupled with the discrete writing made the book very hard for me to enjoy or even understand.

I really want to read the book, but I doubt that I that I'm english-proficient enough to enjoy it, which saddens me.

Should I perservere with the book or should I get better at english before trying?

Is there any hope of reading (and enjoying) this book as an ESL?

I have just finished reading Chapter 24 of the Claw of the Conciliator, and I'm confused. Is the symbolic meaning of all the characters of the play something I was supposed to have already understood?

Also, is it normal to be confused in some parts while reading the books for the first time?

I gotta say I love these stories like Dune and Book of the New Sun that take place in the far future where society has become so indistinguishable that it seem like earth society never happened.

A thousand ages in thy sight
Are like an evening gone;
Short as the watch that ends the night
Before the rising sun.

Best Dark Fantasy books?

Or books that most closely resemble Dark Souls