Variaciones tipográficas entre diferentes ediciones de una obra literaria: el caso de la novela cubana Historia de un bribón dichoso.

The aim of this paper is to analyze the effects of the typographical variations in the novel Historia de un bribón dichoso, by Ramón Piña, in its different editions. In addition to describing the transformations conditioned by the evolution of the language itself and the orthotypographic adaptations, this work assesses the implications that these may have for the transmission history of the text in question. The analysis is undertaken from a transdisciplinary point of view, using the methods of Textual Criticism, Textology, Orthotypography and Linguistics. From the location and dating of each edition and the elaboration of the Stemma codicum or genealogical tree of the work, we proceeded to a simultaneous comparison in order to identify the variations. Subsequently, the phenomena found were classified and tabulated, especially the variations of a typographical nature. The detailed study showed as a result the presence of multiple transformations resulting from the evolution of language and typography, and also from the editorial process. A considerable part of these changes affect the meaning of the text and its transmission history. The above allows concluding, in the first place, that a special attention is imposed to this work from the field of textual criticism, besides, it constitutes an alert call to Cuban philology about the need to pay attention to the principles of textology in the editorial praxis and philological analysis in general sense. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]