Resumen: The Colombian writer Nicolás Gómez Dávila has the rare quality of having spar-ked the enthusiasm of dissident writers such as Savater or Volpi. His uniqueness
as a literary reactionary distances him from conservative thinking and in his criti-cism of the modern world he ties in with the Dostoevsky, Nietzsche and Schopen-hauer school of thought. The claim
for specific individual freedom and his criticism
of political power, where there are also echoes of the reflections of the Romanian
writer Ciorán, is very relevant.
Palabras clave: Freedom, Aristocracy, Literary criticism, Political power, Common law, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer
