| 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]
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]
