Facsimile Edition

Manuel Altolaguirre. Tres revistas del exilio.

Atentamente, La Verónica, y Antología de España en el Recuerdo.

Best Edited Book, Research and Erudition (2003). Ministerio de Cultura

Shortly after Manuel Altolaguirre and Concha Méndez arrived in Havana, April 1938, a group of Cuban artists and intellectuals, led by José Lezama Lima, made a collection to help them restart their publishing profession, which they had successfully practiced in Spain before the Civil War.

A year later, Altolaguirre published Atentamente. Only two issues of this periodical were published, the most singular among his publications. Two years later, after he had published several issues of”1616,”Altolaguirre printed La Verónica.

Among the contributors to the six issues of this tiny periodical were Rafael Alberti, Jorge Guillén, Emilio Prados, Lydia Cabrera, Guillermo Owen and Altolaguirre himself. It also included reviews, essays and short stories by other writers.  Its small format (8 x 13,5 cm) and manual binding  are its most peculiar features.

In Mexico, he published Antología de España en el Recuerdo, with essays on poetry and theater by Alberti, Luis Cernuda, José Moreno Villa, Guillén, Antonio Machado, and Juan Ramón Jiménez.

Facsimile edition of the two issues of Atentamente ( Havana, 1940), six of  La Verónica ( Havana, 1942)  and two of  Antología de España en el Recuerdo (México, 1946).With an introductory essay by James Valender.