Resumen

SOL, Manuel. Eligio Ancona: Memorias de un alférez and its Editions. Lit. mex [online]. 2014, vol.25, n.2, pp.5-24. ISSN 2448-8216.

After some data about the biography and novel of Eligio Ancona, three editions of Memorias de un alférez are described; some of the variations are examined through which it is shown that the most imperfect was that prepared by Antonio Castro Leal in 1964 for his edition of La novela del México colonial, among other reasons, for having used as a base text the edition of Editorial Yucatanense "Club del Libro" (Book Club), published in 1950; for not having consulted the editio princeps, published by José Maria Pino Suárez in 1904; and for having corrected the text according to certain grammatical prejudices. An edition is proposed which establishes its critical text based on the editio princeps, the closest to the final artistic choice of the author; and which would be presented accompanying a series of lexical and generally cultural notes, which may situate the work in its historical and literary circumstance.

Palabras llave : Eligio Ancona; historical novel; colonial novel; textual criticism; ecdotics.