Complex texts x.x

We were told, a few weeks ago, to read two complex texts from very complex novels, "The Leopard" by Giuseppe Tomasi and "Notable American Women" by Ben Marcus.

They were reaaaaly hard for us to understand, I barely understood some words.
This shows us:

• "Reading is not simply a decoding of letters and words but a process through which we understand what a text or author is suggesting and what the words mean"
• "We all bring knowledge and experience to our reading of the text"
• "To be an informed reader is to be a reader who may know it is impossible to know and understand everything about a work of literature, but who understands the forces on an author, on the meaning and interpretation of a work, and on his own personal reactions"