Prometeo
CategoriesLiterary magazine
FrequencyMonthly
FounderJavier Gómez de la Serna
Founded1908
First issue1 November 1908
Final issue1 March 1912
CountrySpain
Based inMadrid
LanguageSpanish
ISSN1576-1363
OCLC733274174

Prometeo (Spanish: Prometheus) was a monthly avant-garde magazine which existed between 1908 and 1912 in Madrid, Spain. The magazine was established by the avant-garde writer Javier Gómez de la Serna. Its subtitle was revista social y literaria (Spanish: Social and literary magazine).[1]

History and profile

Prometeo was launched by Javier Gómez de la Serna in Madrid on 1 November 1908.[1] It came out monthly.[2] Javier Gómez edited the political section of the magazine until issue 11 dated September 1909 when he was appointed general director registries and notaries.[1] Then his son Ramón Gómez de la Serna took charge of the magazine.[1] He also published articles in the magazine.[3] Its major contributors were as follows: Rafael Cansinos-Asséns, Enrique Díez Canedo, Carlos Fernández Shaw, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Gabriel Miró, Cipriano Rivas Cherif, Emilio Carrere and Francisco Villaespesa.[1] The writings of the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti were also featured in the magazine.[4]

In April 1909 Prometeo published the Spanish translation of the manifesto of futurism written by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti.[5] The text was translated into Spanish by Ramón Gómez.[2] Therefore, it endorsed this new approach which laid the basis of the avant-garde movement.[2] It was the first Spanish periodical which published Spanish translations of the poems by Walt Whitman.[2] The magazine also featured translations of the work by Oscar Wilde, Thomas De Quincey, Anatole France, Maxim Gorky and George Bernard Shaw.[1] The final issue of Prometeo appeared on 1 March 1912.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "Prometeo (Madrid. 1908)" (in Spanish). Hemeroteca Digital. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
  2. ^ a b c d Kelly S. Franklin (Summer 2017). "A Translation of Whitman Discovered in the 1912 Spanish Periodical Prometeo". Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. 35 (1): 115–126. doi:10.13008/0737-0679.2267.
  3. ^ Juan Herrero-Senés (2013). ""Polemics, jokes, compliments and insults": The Reception of Futurism in the Spanish Press (1909–1918)". International Yearbook of Futurism Studies. 3 (1): 135. doi:10.1515/futur.2013.3.1.123. S2CID 193082085.
  4. ^ Günter Berghaus (2014). "Futurism and Modernist Magazines". In Günter Berghaus (ed.). International Yearbook of Futurism Studies. Vol. 4. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter. p. 52. doi:10.1515/futur-2014-0010. ISBN 9783110334104.
  5. ^ Andrew A. Anderson (2000). "Futurism and Spanish Literature in the Context of the Historical Avant-Garde". In Günter Berghaus (ed.). International Futurism in Arts and Literature. Vol. 13. Berlin; New York: De Gruyter. p. 145. doi:10.1515/9783110804225.144. ISBN 9783110156812.
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