Amable enemigo mío, Darío y yo. El <i>Rubén Darío</i> (1917) de José María Vargas Vila

Abstract

This article examines the unique relationship between life and work concocted in the biography that the Colombian José María Vargas Vila writes about Rubén Darío in 1917, from the hypothesis that it interrogates the links between biography and autobiography through a series of key issues for modern Spanish American literature: the figure of the artist, the bohemian and the problem of autonomy. It also reflects on the value of the rhetoric of tribute in emerging Latin American literary field, the late nineteenth century.