Two Readers Aside: Roberto Bazlen (Trieste, 1902-Milan, 1965) and Nicolás Gómez Dávila (Bogotá, 1913-1994)
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Roberto Bazlen, Nicolás Gómez DávilaAbstract
Roberto Bazlen (Trieste, 1902 - Milán, 1965) y Nicolás Gómez Dávila (Bogotá, 1913-1994) son dos lectores que se encuentran en los márgenes de sus respectivas culturas, Italia y Colombia. Su confluencia en un mismo catálogo editorial, Adelphi Edizioni, no es fortuita si piensa en la dimensión estética de los dos géneros literarios que cada uno cultivó: el parere di lettura editoriale [informe de lectura editorial] y el escolio. 903 / 5.000 Roberto Bazlen (Trieste, 1902 - Milan, 1965) and Nicolás Gómez Dávila (Bogotá, 1913-1994) are two readers who meet on the margins of their respective cultures, Italy and Colombia. Their convergence in the same publishing catalogue, Adelphi Edizioni, is not fortuitous if we consider the aesthetic dimension of the two literary genres that each cultivated: the parere di lettura editoriale [editorial reading report] and the scholium. When Roberto Bazlen noted in his notebooks that it was no longer possible to write more books but only footnotes, he probably had in mind an idea very similar to that of the forgotten Colombian philosopher, Nicolás Gómez Dávila, who throughout his life dedicated himself to reading and writing scholia to an implicit text. This lecture seeks to elucidate why the notion of a work no longer fits into those small but difficult literary genres specific to the reader.
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