Prometeo (magazine)

*Prometeo*
Categories	Literary magazine
Frequency	Monthly
Founder	Javier Gómez de la Serna
Founded	1908
First issue	1 November 1908
Final issue	1 March 1912
Country	Spain
Based in	Madrid
Language	Spanish
ISSN	1576-1363
OCLC	733274174

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

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Prometeo (Madrid. 1908)" (in Spanish). Hemeroteca Digital. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
^ ^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.
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ 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.

[hemero-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Prometeo (Madrid. 1908)" (in Spanish). Hemeroteca Digital. Retrieved 7 September 2022.

[ksf17-2] 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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