What are the ①relations between social determinations and subjective aesthetic experience? If every author comes out with his/her own set of values and personal history, how is this subjective vision of the world ②influenced by the society in which the author lives? The inner world of the writer necessarily meets the social world outside of him or her. Pierre Bourdieu, in La distinction, tries ③to answer this question from a materialistic point of view, saying that the analysis of this kind of relation between the inner and the social world must go back to the earliest stage of a child's life when s/he experiences pleasure and aversion. But children are already part of a social group thanks to their family, and therefore the pleasure and the aversion they experience are class-specific, according to the volume of capital they can access, so that the ‘purest’ pleasures, Bourdieu affirms, are ④rooting in these socially conditioned experiences. In other words, for Bourdieu, from the beginning of life, every experience is already conditioned by the world outside, and this influence manifests ⑤itself in literary works too.