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St. Teresa of Avila
The Way of Perfection
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INTRODUCTION
VALLADOLID AUTOGRAPH.
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VALLADOLID
AUTOGRAPH
.
In
writing
for her
çvila
nuns
,
St
.
Teresa
used
language
much more
simple
,
familiar
and
homely
than in any of her other
works
. But when she
began
to
establish
more
foundations
and her
circle
of
readers
widened
, this
language
must have seemed to her too
affectionately
intimate
, and some of her
figures
and
images
may
have
struck
her as too
domestic
and
trivial
, for a more
general
and
scattered
public
. So she
conceived
the
idea
of
rewriting
the
book
in a more
formal
style
; it is the
autograph
of this
redaction
which is in the
possession
of the
Discalced
Carmelite
nuns
of
Valladolid
.
The
additions
,
omissions
and
modifications
in this
new
autograph
are more
considerable
than is
generally
realized
. From the
preface
onwards
, there is no
CHAPTER
without its
emendations
and in many there are
additions
of whole
paragraphs
. The
Valladolid
autograph
, therefore, is in no
sense
a
copy
, or even a
recast
, of the first
draft
, but a
free
and
bold
treatment
of it. As a
general
rule
, a
second
draft
, though often more
correctly
written
and
logically
arranged
than its
original
, is less
flexible
,
fluent
and
spontaneous
. It is
hard
to
say
how
far
this is the
case
here.
Undoubtedly
some of the
charm
of the
author
's
natural
simplicity
vanishes
, but the
corresponding
gain
in
clarity
and
precision
is
generally
considered
greater
than the
loss
.
Nearly
every
change
she makes is an
improvement
; and this not only in
stylistic
matters
, for one of the
greatest
of her
improvements
is the
lengthening
of the
CHAPTERs
and their
reduction
in
number
from
73
to
42
, to the
great
advantage
of the
book
's
symmetry
and
unity
.
It is
clear
that
St
.
Teresa
intended
the
Valladolid
redaction
to be the
definitive
form
of her
book
since she had so
large
a
number
of
copies
of it made for her
friends
and
spiritual
daughters
: among these were the
copy
which she
sent
for
publication
to
Don
Teutonio
de
Braganza
and that used for the first
collected
edition
of her
works
by
Fray
Luis
de
Le-n
. For the same
reason
this
redaction
has always been
given
preference
over its
predecessor
by the
Discalced
Carmelites
.
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