Phenomenon and greguería: Preliminaries to a phenomenological interpretation of Ramón Gómez de la Serna

Abstract

This article lays the preliminary ground for a more systematic phenomenological analysis (yet to come) of the greguería (in particular), and some aspects of Ramón Gómez de la Serna’s work (in general). Our basic references would be two prologues in which Ramón Gómez de la Serna reflects about his very doing and proceeding: the prologue to the 1960’s edition of the Greguerías and the prologue to the Novelas de nebulosa. We shall insist in some aspects related to the essential diachrony between what is being intended or pointed out by the greguería and the linguistic expression of the greguería itself. This will lead us to grasp the experience in terms of a plurality of temporalization (and phenomenalization) levels. We will finally underline the unprethinkable breakthrough caused by a greguería in any field of preestablished possibilities, and how the experience of the greguería hints at some kind of non-objetual, phenomenological realism.