Del necessario incanto. Nota su letteratura, arti, infanzia e meraviglia

Neverland; or maybe one which is or which, however, should be; children’s room, the room of the boys, the space of the game never tired, of the story interrupted and rediscovered, of tears, enthusiasm and whispers, becomes a place of need – never vanished – of “happy enchantment”; an enchantment that you feel the need, which is felt alienation than drifts of different and varied nature: on the one hand children lose fingers and eyes on display attractive and colorful as empty and illusory; the other the niche of a referential intellighenzia that runs the risk, extremely palpable in the troubled times in which we live, of no longer grasp the stimmung the context in which it is located, of not being able to intercept a flow generation incapable of shorter stops, let alone the long – and ‘educated’ – thoughtful pauses. The rediscovery of a boyish space, in which to find the lost contact with the charm that we should – again – knowing how to tell, is wedged here, between the ability to steal another man’s curious look at the puppies, and the awareness of the need – always – lead a path of scientific rigor and cultural breath never short. An academic breath, however, too often stopped at the superficiality of forced fence; became a slave to the categorization of genres and currents, classifications and simplistic hierarchies implicitly (if not explicitly) derived from unconditional acceptances criticism fashionable, forget that accession to the current dominant fact is revealed – often – which cancellation of critical thinking more careful and aware and, too frequently, which move away from some of the ‘regions’ of living more significant, from an artistic-literary and existential.