Abstract
This article problematizes the relationship between José Lezama Lima’s cosmovision and the method he used to develop his “poetic system of the world”. It is divided into four sections in addition to the introduction: Cosmovision and hypertelia; Image and knowledge; Method and system; Cosmovision and method, a disagreement? From the review of Lezama’s essayistic work and his statements in interviews, the conformation of the author’s cosmovision is described, where the affiliations to Greek antiquity and Christianity stand out, as well as elements of Lezama’s poetic thought, while the features of his method and the influence of the philosopher Giambattista Vico, among other aspects, are reviewed. Finally, it highlights the thinker that Lezama was, more than the literary man, and recognizes the arrival of a new perspective of study for the systematizing aspect of Lezama’s work.