Reading question

I'd like to ask something about reading stamina. If you read something (mostly thinking of fiction here) and do not instantly understand it, do you persist to read it again?

Is your persistance, in the case it appears, a matter of if the author who wrote it was already known to you?

The question resurfaces since one of my latest published stories is one i consider to be on the cryptic side. It was published nonetheless, but i am unsure what most people will read into it. It is about someone who has a (possible) hallucination of a mosquito, while being in an asylum. It is argued that the probable sighting of the insect is imaginary, and has a symbolic meaning which takes over the person's real past. He is focused on the mosquito and cannot really recall why he is in the asylum.

Now i think in most places (and here too) serious fiction has fewer people reading it than, lets say, romantic novels, or some sort of pulp/cult writing. It is bad enough writing in an old-fashioned language, it is even worse to be hard to understand.

I tried to give enough room for the story to gain some interest even if not all of its meaning (in my mind) was evident to all readers.