Lenz, Latorre y el archivo popular de la nación

Abstract

This article examines the close relation between philology and criollismo in Chile. I propose to comprehend this productive interchange from the idea of a popular archive of the nation, which 1 Para correspondencia, dirigirse a: Pablo Concha Ferreccio (pabloconchas@gmail.com). 170 BOLETÍN DE FILOLOGÍA TOMO LV, NÚMERO 2, 2020 privilege object is popular culture manifestations. This hermeneutic device would have been by the German philologist and folklorist Rodolfo Lenz and then continued by folklorists and literary authors, among which the main exponent of criollismo, Mariano Latorre, stands out. I discuss the reading problems associated with the two encarnations of popular culture that this archive privileged: the vulgar language or dialect and folklore, considering the different places of enunciation of Lenz and Latorre.