Force and meaning in the philology of Raimundo Lida

Abstract

This work develops a philological reading of Raimundo Lida's essays entitled Rubén Darío. Modernismo (1984), focusing on the prose of the Nicaraguan poet and in the light of the two versions of ‘Bergson, filósofo dellenguaje’, the first versión published in 1933 and a later one (revised and extended) in 1958.  From a perspective that brings together Deleuzean vitalism and Bergsonian phenomenology, we argue that Lida's philological reading can offer clues to a certain conception of American expressions.