Keywords

• As compared with Gramsciâ€
• ™
• s prison writings
• his pre-prison output has had a different reception. Gramsci never wrote a book as such and
• despite pressure from different sources
• never wanted his newspaper articles published in book form
• even withdrawing permission for such a volume at the proof stage. From his first newspaper article in 1910 to the essay on the southern question
• written just before his arrest
• editors are presented with problems. His articles in the communist and socialist press are normally unsigned
• thus causing serious and still open problems of attribution. This essay begins by reconstructing how Gramsciâ€
• ™
• s pre-prison political and journalistic writings were published
• from the first two Einaudi editions onwards
• concluding with a presentation of the criteria on which the National Edition is based