Challenges of the complete works of Francisco Gavidia

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Abstract This paper explains the difficulty in the organization of the complete works of Francisco Gavidia. Due to the amplitude of disciplinary fields that he addressed and the quantity of works that Gavidia undertook, the organization of his work required a titanic effort by his grandson, the SalvadoranGuatemalan philosopher, José Mata Gavidia. This paper presents how Mata Gavidia organized his grandfather’s works culminating in a publication proposal presented to Ricardo Trigueros de León, which was partially finalized years later. Before doing so, we will review some works in which we find an effort to propose a list of Gavidia’s texts, specifically, the four winning books of the 1965 National Literature Competition, as well as the catalog of Gavidia’s works available at the National Library of El Salvador and published in the journal Anaqueles in 1970. Finally, we will evaluate Mata Gavidia’s proposal in the context of an ongoing project on the Salvadoran writer’s work.