| 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 wasrevista social y literaria (Spanish:Social and literary magazine).[1]
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 sonRamón 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 andFrancisco Villaespesa.[1] The writings of the Italian poetFilippo Tommaso Marinetti were also featured in the magazine.[4]
In April 1909Prometeo published the Spanish translation of themanifesto 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 byWalt Whitman.[2] The magazine also featured translations of the work byOscar Wilde,Thomas De Quincey,Anatole France,Maxim Gorky andGeorge Bernard Shaw.[1] The final issue ofPrometeo appeared on 1 March 1912.[1]