La Revisió de la pròpia obra en els escriptors contemporanis : notes per a una tipologia de motius

Abstract

A change of attitude came about between 1750 and 1830 among European writers with respect to the material traces of the writing process behind the work itself. These change manifests itself on the one hand in the preservation of the materials that bear witness to that process (notebooks, sketches, drawings, outlines, first drafts, manuscripts etc.), and on the other on revising and thus reworking the work itself. The reasons prompting writers to undertake those reworking processes stem from various factors: the writers own development, feedback from readers, flaws in the work, bringing the text into line with the linguistic and literary code, the constraints of the context, and the nature of the channel of dissemination. Hence knowing the authors attitude to his or her own work and analysing the material traces left in its wake can provide essential elements for shaping an interpretative reading. Contemporary texts must therefore be approached in a spirit that is to some extent critical as regards their authorship.