La divertente fatica per tutti. Vittorio Spinazzola teorico della lettura

[Machine translation] Vittorio Spinazzola's theory of reading is presented in the light of its aesthetic foundations and his militant crossing of the literary system that centers and suburbs are taking charge of because of a pioneering and courageous confrontation with the cultural industry and the publishing market. Starting from the recognition of the indispensable discrimination of taste, Spinazzola subjects this decisive component of aesthetic Crucianism to a tension that irreversibly distances it from neoidealistic premises, orienting his theoretical and methodological work in the direction of an anthropology of literature, and specifically of reading, to which the intellectual will shape especially in the Eighties and Nineties. It is this anthropological basis — openly materialist and functionalist, that supports the sociological-economic system, not without useful Freudian references, Spinazzolian criticism and theory. The inseparable connection of the parameters of sensitivity and cognitive reflection affirmed by Spinazzola focuses on the rhetorical — and dialogic — dimension of reading and literary experience in its totality, from its constitutive relational character — roles, norms and negotiations of the literary community on which he has always worked tirelessly — to the fact that any single imaginative object is imbued with values and hierarchies of values, with which those who write and those who read cannot but reckon.