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This article provides new evidences in favour of the hypothesis that Cervantes, after finishing Don Quixote, Part II, partially revised the original, introducing some significant changes and additions, mainly in the last chapters. The analysis of some narrative inconsistencies, that cannot be interpreted as mere mistakes but as significant textual traces, reveals a process of re-elaboration –a process that affects at least four sections of the novel. Most of the evidence gathered here suggests that this revision is closely linked to Avellaneda’s continuation, in the sense that Cervantes tried to challenge the apocriphal Quixote making last-time interventions in his own text., El presente artículo aporta pruebas a favor de la hipótesis de que Cervantes, una vez concluida la Segunda parte del Quijote (o al final del proceso de redacción), revisó parcialmente el original para introducir retoques y adiciones de cierto calado. A partir del estudio de una serie de incongruencias narrativas que no parecen achacables al mero descuido, se ponen de manifiesto las huellas de un proceso de reelaboración que afecta por lo menos a cuatro secciones de la novela. La mayor parte de indicios apuntan a que la revisión estuvo casi siempre ligada al desafío que supuso la continuación de Avellaneda, y a que esos cambios fueron acciones de última hora para impugnar al continuador apócrifo.

This article provides new evidences in favour of the hypothesis that Cervantes, after finishing Don Quixote, Part II, partially revised the original, introducing some significant changes and additions, mainly in the last chapters. The analysis of some narrative inconsistencies, that cannot be interpreted as mere mistakes but as significant textual traces, reveals a process of re-elaboration –a process that affects at least four sections of the novel. Most of the evidence gathered here suggests that this revision is closely linked to Avellaneda’s continuation, in the sense that Cervantes tried to challenge the apocriphal Quixote making last-time interventions in his own text.