The Hardest to Read Books of the Literary World

You can take it with great enthusiasm, maybe in the first few lines, maybe even in the first pages, “What is this?” Were there any books that you said and put aside? A group of researchers from England, As a result of his interviews with 3 thousand 205 book lovers, listed the 10 most confusing books of all time.

Among the books on the list, we have compiled the ones in Turkish for you. If you like to think, examine what you read, and take notes while reading, this list is for you.

Here are the 10 books that confuse readers (or those who are trying to read) the most:

• Article 22 – Joseph Heller
• Animal Farm – George Orwell
• Lord of the Flies – William Golding
• Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
• Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
• miserables – Victor Hugo
• Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes
• Ulysses – James Joyce
• Moby Dick – Herman Melville
• Life of Pi – Yann Martel

Article 22 (Catch 22)

• Author: Joseph Heller
• Genre: Black comedy, absurdist fiction, historical novel
• Year published: 1961

Introduced to our language by Niran Elçi Article 22It is considered one of the cornerstones of American literature. By Joseph Heller II. During World War II based on his experiences as a bomber pilot, Article 22is a satirical war novel. What makes the book difficult to read; the non-linear progression of the plot and the mixing of different narrators.

Animal Farm (Animal Farm)

• Author: George Orwell
• Genre: Political satire
• Year published: 1945

It was translated into Turkish for the first time by Halide Edip Adıvar. Animal Farman allegorical work. This novel, which at first glance seems to be about a farm and the animals living in it, is actually a serious story. critique of stalinism. Animal FarmThe reason why is found confusing may be that it takes a lot of thought to try to understand what is meant between the lines.

Lord of the Flies (Lord of the Flies)

• Author: William Golding
• Genre: Allegorical novel
• Year published: 1954

We usually read with the translation of English literature doyen Mina Urgan. Lord of the FliesWhen you first hold it in your hands, it might give you the feeling of “Oh, a bunch of kids on a deserted island, looks like something fun”. However, that is not the case. Nobel literature laureate William Golding strikingly demonstrates how savage people can become for leadership. Lord of the FliesAmong the things that make reading .

Wuthering Heights (Wuthering Heights)

• Author: Emily Brontë
• Genre: Tragedy, gothic
• Year published: 1847

Emily Brontë, as women writers were not taken very seriously at that time. Wuthering HeightsHe wrote it under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. The book, which is considered one of the classics of English literature today, is the first and last book of the author. Wuthering Heights Although it may seem like a romance novel at first glance, it is a very successful novel that makes you feel the oppression of the Victorian Era and the negative reflections of suppression. Things that make the book difficult to read; language is a bit old, the plot is slow and it is difficult to connect emotionally with the characters.

Jane Eyre

• Written by: Charlotte Brontë
• Genre: Bildungsroman (Genesis novel)
• Year published: 1847

Charlotte Brontë, who had to use a pseudonym like her sister Emily Brontë, wrote under the name Currer Bell. Jane Eyre, a bildungsroman. In other words, it tells the development of a character from past to present. in the book orphaned at a young age and we witness the life of Jane Eyre, who left the boarding school and started to work in a mansion as a teacher.

Things take a turn for the worse when Jane Eyre falls in love with the mansion’s mysterious lord. The book is based on a strong Christian ethos. social criticism important because it contains Jane EyreWhat makes it difficult to read is that it is difficult to understand the changing relationships between the characters.

miserables (Les Miserables)

• Author: Victor Hugo
• Genre: Epic, fictional history
• Year published: 1862

Considered one of the most important works of the 19th century miserables, French Revolution‘with its story stretching out, it actually deals with the lives of several characters and their relationships with each other. one of the longest novels miserablesThat’s exactly one of the things that makes . Being too long…

Don Quixote (Don Quixote)

• Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
• Genre: humor, psychology, satirical
• Year published: 1605, 1615

Considered the first novel in history Don Quixoteis about a character with the same name as the book. Don Quixote is a former landlord in his 50s who lives in La Mancha. Don Quixote, who loves books about knights and thinks they are all real, leaves everything behind and hits the road. The things that make Don Quixote confusing are: Don Quixote’s long speeches about chivalry and the length of the book.

Ulysses

• Author: James Joyce
• Genre: modern novel
• Year published: 1922

It consists of 656 pages of articles published by the author in a magazine between 1918-1920. Ulysses, as if kidding a 24-hour period tells. UlyssesOne of the things that makes The book one of the hardest, most confusing books to read is that it uses the stream of consciousness technique. In other words, the author writes as if he is speaking at the moment. There is also the author’s stinginess about punctuation… For example, he used only two periods in the last part of the book, which is extremely long! The allusions and word games in the book are also among the elements that increase the confusion.

Moby Dick

• Author: Herman Melville
• Genre: Epic, adventure, sea story
• Year published: 1851

This book, which is about the adventures of the whale named Moby Dick, did not attract much attention in the first period of its publication. It later became famous again in the twentieth century. Moby DickThe reasons why it is difficult to read can be listed as follows: The book is very long (822 pages), the format is a bit strange (from the traditional story to articles about whales and up to philosophy We are talking about a wide spectrum), the reader should know Western civilization well, it is difficult to understand the conditions of that period when looking at the 21st century.

Life of Pi (Life of Pi)

• Author: Yann Martel
• Genre: Philosophical fiction
• Year published: 2001

You may have seen the movie Life of Pi. In general, the movie version is better known than the book. More than ten million copies of the book have been sold around the world, and it is the story of a child alone with a Bengal tiger in a boat. 227 days of life struggle takes the subject. There are those who say that the detailed explanations of the main character make it difficult to read the book.

One of the things that confuses readers is the elements of magical realism. So we see fantastic elements in a realistic world. Or would it be possible to survive in the same environment with a hungry tiger for 227 days? Let’s give a small detail about the movie Life of Pi without closing. to make the movie more realistic. 76 days in the Atlantic Ocean The idea was taken from the struggling sailor Steven Callahan.

It is not included in the research, but to speak specifically of Turkish literature, Oğuz Atay’s publication in 1972 Those Who Can’t Hold The book is considered as one of the most difficult to read works of our literature. Lots of satire, psychoanalysis, connotations, impressions Those Who Can’t Holdis the first postmodern novel of our literature.