Nocturna palabra, de Elías Nandino: antecedentes para una edición crítica

In 1960, the Jalisco poet Elías Nandino (1900-1993) published Nocturna Palabra in the prestigious Letras Mexicanas collection of the Fondo de Cultura Económica; the book brought together the poetry collections Nocturna suma, published in 1955 by Tezontle publishing house, and the unpublished Nocturna Palabra. Some of the poems in this anthology have been published in different magazines and plates at the end of the first half of the 20th century and the beginning of the second, the author warned in a note of the first edition. Nandino also said that the first versions of these texts were invalidated after the publication of the 1960 edition, since it represented its final form. However, when the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México republished Nocturna palabra in 1976, Elías Nandino introduced new changes, some of them very important. These antecedents are significant because they enable the critical study of the transformations of the texts and the reconstruction of the rewriting system used by the author during his creation process. This paper presents the progress of this analysis: the archival work to locate the first textual executions of the poems, the selection of the editing criteria to record the base text and its variants, and the first reading of the rewrite phenomena. These antecedents constitute the basis for the critical edition that is projected.