Abstract
The work and figure of Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora (1645-1700) recurrently appear doubly inscribed in Latin American literature: firstly, in critical terms, work and figure are perceived and conceived within the vast and diverse historical field that defined the crónicas de Indias, and in the still vague but revolutionary space of a presumably modern science; secondly, in historical terms, work and figure are also curiously but not casually placed in different series that distance them from the 17th century and its Baroque, which was both urban and literate. Besides studying this last inscription, this article also seeks to point out how this inscription gains fundamental importance in the edition of his texts, in the conception and practice of his literature and in the capacity these elements generate to articulate, in Latin America, diverse and renewed networks of agents, events and ideas that today appear under the guise of the archive.
Keywords:
Sigüenza y Góngora; archive; textual criticism; poetry; res publica