Texts have inherent meaning. If you read The Count of Monte Cristo and think it's talking about how the Federal Reserve controls the world and affects the tides, you've just found "meaning through your interaction" with the book, but it's not because there is anything in the text to that effect. You're just likely a paranoid schizophrenic.

This post-modern take on the novel is a pile of steaming horseshit that, as I said, reduces the value of literature, literary criticism and learning to meaninglessness.