Octubre (magazine) explained
| Octubre |
| Category: | Literary magazine |
| Firstdate: | Summer 1933 |
| Finaldate: | 1934 |
| Country: | Spain |
| Based: | Madrid |
| Language: | Spanish |
Octubre (Spanish; Castilian: October) was a Communist literary magazine which was published in Madrid between 1933 and 1934.[1] The subtitle of the magazine was Escritores y artistas revolutionarios (Spanish; Castilian: Revolutionary writers and artists).[1]
History and profile
The founders of Octubre were Rafael Alberti, his wife María Teresa León and César Arconada.[2] [3] [4] The magazine was started in Summer 1933[5] after the visit of Alberti and León to the Soviet Union.[6] Some of the contributors included Antonio Machado, Emilio Prados and Luis Cernuda.[1] [7]
Octubre was published on high-quality paper and frequently featured photographs most of which displayed scenes from Soviet life.[1] The magazine had a Marxist orientation.[8] It also adopted a Soviet-type avant-garde literary approach[1] and had a Stalinist political stance.[9] Although the magazine was not financed by the Comintern, it featured some articles, essays, and photos provided by the Soviets.[10]
See also
Notes and References
- Estrella de Diego. Jaime Brihuega. Art and Politics in Spain, 1928-36. Art Journal. Spring 1993. 52. 1. 57. 10.1080/00043249.1993.10791495.
- Web site: Rafael Alberti. 29 October 2021. es. Santa & Cole. 12 March 2022.
- Gina Herrmann. Nostralgia: María Teresa León, Rafael Alberti, and the Memory of Absence. Revista Hispánica Moderna. December 2001. 54. 2. 329. 30207965.
- Book: Silvina Schammah Gesser. Alexandra Cheveleva Dergacheva. Raanan Rein. Raanan Rein. Joan Maria Thomàs. Joan Maria Thomàs. Spain 1936: Year Zero. 2018. Sussex Academic Press. Brighton. 978-1845198923. 177. https://books.google.com/books?id=M5vHugEACAAJ. An Engagé in Spain: Commitment and Its Downside in Rafael Alberti’s Philo-Sovietism.
- Grant Daryl Moss. Ohio State University. 33. MA. Political poetry in the wake of the Second Spanish Republic: Rafael Alberti, Pablo Neruda, and Nicolás Guillén. 2010.
- News: Rafael Alberti; Spanish Poet Was Last Survivor of 'Generation of 1927 Artists'. 12 March 2022. Los Angeles Times. 1 November 1999.
- Book: 26. Salvador Jiménez-Fajardo. Multiple Spaces: The Poetry of Rafael Alberti. Tamesis Books. 1985. 978-0-7293-0199-2. London.
- Carl-Henrik Bjerstrom. Re-imagining the nation: Josep Renau and the politics of culture in Republican Spain, 1931-1919. University of London. 58. PhD. 2014.
- Book: Grant D. Moss. Political Poetry in the Wake of the Second Spanish Republic: Rafael Alberti, Pablo Neruda, and Nicolás Guillén. 2017. 18. Lexington Books. 978-1-4985-4771-0. Lanham, MD.
- Lisa A. Kirschenbaum. The Russian Revolution and Spanish Communists, 1931–5. Journal of Contemporary History. 2017. 52. 4. 899. 10.1177/0022009417723974. 159939003.
