Ediciones Atalanta
| Status | Active |
|---|---|
| Founded | October 2005 |
| Founder | Jacobo Siruela Inka Martí |
| Country of origin | Spain |
| Headquarters location | Vilaür, Girona |
| Fiction genres | Ars brevis Memoria mundi Imaginatio vera Liber naturae |
| Official website | https://www.edicionesatalanta.com |
Ediciones Atalanta is a private Spanish publishing house based in Vilaür.[1] It was founded in October 2005[2] by the editor Jacobo Siruela and his wife, the journalist and photographer Inka Martí.[3][4][5]
Catalog
[edit]Main collections
[edit]Atalanta, a name created from the ancient Greek myth, is represented by four collections that symbolize "Brevity", "Memory", "Imagination" and "Nature".[6][7]
Ars brevis
[edit]Paraphrasing Shakespeare, "brevity is the soul of wit", this collection seeks "short works with long prologues". Spanning all times and places, the literary essence of the author is condensed with the greatest possible intensity. It includes authors and anthologies such as Joseph Conrad, Vivant Denon, Apuleius, Vernon Lee, H. G. Wells, D. H. Lawrence, Ivan Turgenev, Thomas De Quincey, Oscar Wilde, the Sarashina Nikki, Heinrich von Kleist, Alejo Carpentier, Naiyer Masud, Eliot Weinberger, an anthology about vampires, Salvador Elizondo, Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, Francisco Tario, Felisberto Hernández, George MacDonald, José Bianco, a Universal anthology of fantastic stories, Robert Aickman, an anthology on the mirror, Franz Kafka, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, W. Somerset Maugham, an anthology on decadentism, Yasutaka Tsutsui, Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Ednodio Quintero, J. Rodolfo Wilcock or Roger Caillois.[8][9]
Memoria mundi
[edit]It focuses on recovering the great memory of the world that spans twenty-five centuries. Great Asian books, great lost civilizations, small forgotten gems. In it we find works and authors such as the Genji Monogatari, the Yijing, Ivan Morris, Richard Tarnas, Michio Kaku, Winifred Gérin, Leo Tolstoy, Nicolás Gómez Dávila, the Rāmāiana, Jean Gebser, the Jin Ping Mei, Alain Daniélou, Edward Gibbon, Giacomo Casanova, Matsuo Bashō, Anagarika Govinda, Leonardo da Jandra, Octavio Paz, the One Thousand and One Nights, Peter y Elizabeth Fenwick, Jacobo Siruela, the Bhagavad Gita, Arthur Rimbaud, Jordi Esteva, J. F. Martel, Henryk Skolimowski, Juan Arnau, Sonu Shamdasani, Jeremy Naydler, E. F. Schumacher, the Upanishads, Peter Kingsley, Jeffrey J. Kripal, José Joaquín Parra Bañón, Bernardo Kastrup, Algis Uždavinys, David Fideler, R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz, the Diamond Sutra followed by the Heart Sutra, Pythagoras, Joseph Campbell or Jakob Böhme.[10][11]
Imaginatio vera
[edit]This collection aims to offer a new perspective on the most significant and legitimate examples of a whole series of literary and spiritual works inspired by the imagination. They represent the language of poetry, myths, ancient metaphysical visions and visionary experiences. We find authors such as René Daumal, Linda Fierz-David, Michael Maier, Max Ernst, Alain Daniélou, Jacobo Siruela, Inka Martí, Pim van Lommel, Helen Keller, Kathleen Raine, William Blake, George MacDonald, Patrick Harpur, Arthur Zajonc, Remedios Varo, James Hillman, Joscelyn Godwin, Keiron Le Grice, Jules Cashford, Owen Barfield, Tom Cheetham, Joseph Campbell, André Breton, Gary Lachman, Károly Kerényi, Jeffrey Raff, William K. Mahony, Hilma af Klint, Edwin A. Abbott, Charles H. Hinton, Claude Bragdon or Pierre Mabille.[12][13]
Liber naturae
[edit]It is a collection entirely dedicated to nature, from a new holistic perspective, through its most varied facets. This fourth collection includes authors such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Henri Bortoft, Alfred North Whitehead, Jeremy Naydler, Arthur Firstenberg, Stephan Harding, Changlin Zhang or Christian de Quincey.[14][15][16][17]
Other collections
[edit]In addition to those mentioned, authors from outside the collection are added, such as Jean-Martin Fortier, and works dedicated to the Spanish noble house Casa de Alba de Tormes, such as El gran duque de Alba, the Palacio de Liria and the Palacio de las Dueñas.[18]
Awards
[edit]- Award for the best editorial work for the artisanal beauty of literary publishing, awarded by the La Vanguardia supplement, «Fashion & Arts», on November 28, 2019.[19]
References
[edit]- ^ "Base de datos de editoriales".
- ^ Llorente, Manuel (October 10, 2020). "Jacobo Siruela: "Internet y las redes sociales son una nueva forma de alienación"". El Mundo. Retrieved October 10, 2020.
- ^ Massot, Josep (October 5, 2005). "Siruela inicia su editorial Atalanta con un inédito de Conrad y un libro de culto francés". La Vanguardia. Retrieved September 4, 2019.
- ^ Risco, Carlos (August 11, 2010). "Jacobo Siruela: "Buscaba un lugar tranquilo fuera de Madrid y encontré la masía. Ahora, antepongo la calidad de vida a la vanidad"". Vanity Fair. Retrieved September 4, 2019.
- ^ González, Enric (October 7, 2016). "Jacobo Siruela: «Las editoriales pequeñas son un fenómeno totalmente de esta década y, sobre todo, un fenómeno español»". Jot Down. Retrieved September 4, 2019.
- ^ Guinto, J. C. (July 14, 2019). "Jacobo Siruela: imaginación, brevedad y memoria". Confabulario. El Universal. Retrieved September 4, 2019.
- ^ Zanella, Jacobo (July 15, 2020). "Atalanta: brevedad y memoria, imaginación y naturaleza". Letras Libres. Retrieved July 16, 2020.
- ^ Ars brevis
- ^ Catálogo Atalanta 2020: «Ars brevis»
- ^ Memoria mundi
- ^ Catálogo Atalanta 2020: «Memoria mundi»
- ^ Imaginatio vera
- ^ Catálogo Atalanta 2020: «Imaginatio vera»
- ^ Liber naturae
- ^ Catálogo Atalanta 2020: «Liber naturae»
- ^ Arola, Raimon (June 14, 2022). "El canto a la naturaleza de Goethe". Arsgravis. Retrieved June 14, 2022.
- ^ Arola, Raimon (April 16, 2023). "El libro de la naturaleza. Razón y fe". Arsgravis. Retrieved April 16, 2023.
- ^ Catálogo Atalanta 2020: «Fuera de colección» y «Casa de Alba»
- ^ Corzo, Begoña (November 29, 2019). "Una noche para la creatividad". La Vanguardia. Retrieved November 30, 2019.