To do critical reading, you have to know the music.Language does not tell the concrete world but creates autonomous worlds. Language is an abstraction. Reading literature (a language, not "THE world thing") summons the understanding, alone. For these worlds (of which the "thing world spoken henceforth") are intelligible, non-sensitive entities. If then you and I, speaking subjects, subjects of language and not of the "thing-world"; if you and I want to explain, make explicit; to interpret language, especially the potential language that is literature, it is not enough to know the world, nor even to know the men and women writers; that not; it is not enough! You have to know the language first, above all; language alone perhaps.Reading literature, reading all possible language, whether by the writer or by the author or by the reader (all three concepts and not natural persons; respectively: concept of Genetics, of the Sociology of literature, Reception); the reading of literature is, therefore, a science of language; and rather than a human Fellowship it is a brotherhood with the Universal Spirit.