For me, I find it really difficult to comprehend texts of the 1900s and mid 1800s. I don’t find it difficult to read texts from the late 1900s and 2000s

  • ksynwa
    3·
    4 years ago

    It’s not weird to find them hard to read unless you’ve been doing it a lot over a long pweiod of time.

    I feel the same with communist theory especially the ones from Marx and Engels’ times. I found even books like Imagined Communities (1983) incredibly hard to read.

    One thing I have noticed about reading old stuff is that authors take many existing conditions and contexts of their times for granted, understandably so. The more you read the more these ontological assumptions become clear and the more writings make sense.

      • ksynwa
        2·
        4 years ago

        yes. non-contemporary dialects are definitely harder to comprehend. i even find reading indian authors writing in english easier to read than others.