RESEARCH ARTICLE The .txtual condition, .txtual criticism and .txtual scholarly editing in Spanish philology Bénédicte Vauthier 1 Published online: 5 March 2019 # Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 Abstract The impact of New Technologies on writing proccess is not new at all. This digital revolution first resulted in the appearance of new text formats and the development of an ad hoc literary theory. In Angloamerican area, this revolution made philologists and patrimonial institutions reflect on the necessity of developing formats of study, edition and perennial conservation of these new formats of digital texts. What is the reason for such a delay in these disciplines that can be observed in Europe? Why can we say that digital forensics and media archaeology (Kirschenbaum) are not trasnational disci- plines? In this paper, I assess the impact in Europe and in Angloamerican area of .Txtual condition. Moreover, I make a contrast between these conclusions and the answers given by three emblematic writers of the ‘new Spanish narrative’ to a survey about ways of managing and preserving digital files. Keywords Spanish .txtual condition . .txtual criticism . .txtual editing . New comparative filology . Spanish filology 1 The .txtual condition and .txtual criticism in Spanish philology A little more than ten years ago, in June 2007, around forty representatives of contemporary book culture––among them, authors, critics, journalists, publishers and booksellers––gath- ered in Seville at the initiative of a prestigious Spanish publishing house, Seix Barral, and the José Manual Lara Foundation. The aim of the three-day summit and its round-tables was to exchange ideas about and survey into the achievements, objectives and innovations of a International Journal of Digital Humanities (2019) 1:29–46 https://doi.org/10.1007/s42803-019-00003-x Dedicated to Thorsten Ries for his interest in my work. Also dedicated to Agustín Fernández Mallo, Robert Juan-Cantavella and Vicente Luis Mora, without whose generous support this study would not have the same relevance. * Bénédicte Vauthier benedicte.vauthier@rom.unibe.ch 1 Institut für spanische Sprache und Literaturen, Universität Bern (Schweiz), Bern, Switzerland