# Ediciones Atalanta

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**Ediciones Atalanta** is a private [Spanish](/source/Spain) [publishing](/source/Publishing) house based in [Vilaür](/source/Vila%C3%BCr).[1] It was founded in October 2005[2] by the editor [Jacobo Siruela](/source/Jacobo_Siruela) and his wife, journalist and photographer [Inka Martí](/source/Inka_Mart%C3%AD).[3][4][5][6]

## Catalog

### Main collections

[Atalanta](/source/Atalanta), a name created from the ancient [Greek myth](/source/Greek_mythology), is represented by four collections that symbolize "Brevity", "Memory", "Imagination" and "Nature".[7][8]

#### Ars brevis

Paraphrasing [Shakespeare](/source/William_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](/source/Joseph_Conrad), [Vivant Denon](/source/Vivant_Denon), [Apuleius](/source/Apuleius), [Vernon Lee](/source/Vernon_Lee), [H. G. Wells](/source/H._G._Wells), [D. H. Lawrence](/source/D._H._Lawrence), [Ivan Turgenev](/source/Ivan_Turgenev), [Thomas De Quincey](/source/Thomas_De_Quincey), [Oscar Wilde](/source/Oscar_Wilde), the *[Sarashina Nikki](/source/Sarashina_Nikki)*, [Heinrich von Kleist](/source/Heinrich_von_Kleist), [Alejo Carpentier](/source/Alejo_Carpentier), [Naiyer Masud](/source/Naiyer_Masud), [Eliot Weinberger](/source/Eliot_Weinberger), an [anthology about vampires](/source/Vampire), [Salvador Elizondo](/source/Salvador_Elizondo), [Lyudmila Petrushevskaya](/source/Lyudmila_Petrushevskaya), [Francisco Tario](/source/Francisco_Tario), [Felisberto Hernández](/source/Felisberto_Hern%C3%A1ndez), [George MacDonald](/source/George_MacDonald), [José Bianco](/source/Jos%C3%A9_Bianco), a *Universal anthology of fantastic stories*, [Robert Aickman](/source/Robert_Aickman), an [anthology on the mirror](/source/Mirror), [Franz Kafka](/source/Franz_Kafka), [Jun'ichirō Tanizaki](/source/Jun'ichir%C5%8D_Tanizaki), [W. Somerset Maugham](/source/W._Somerset_Maugham), an [anthology on decadentism](/source/Decadent_movement), [Yasutaka Tsutsui](/source/Yasutaka_Tsutsui), [Nicolás Gómez Dávila](/source/Nicol%C3%A1s_G%C3%B3mez_D%C3%A1vila), Ednodio Quintero, [J. Rodolfo Wilcock](/source/J._Rodolfo_Wilcock) or [Roger Caillois](/source/Roger_Caillois).[9][10]

#### Memoria mundi

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](/source/The_Tale_of_Genji)*, the *[Yijing](/source/I_Ching)*, [Ivan Morris](/source/Ivan_Morris), [Richard Tarnas](/source/Richard_Tarnas), [Michio Kaku](/source/Michio_Kaku), [Winifred Gérin](/source/Winifred_G%C3%A9rin), [Leo Tolstoy](/source/Leo_Tolstoy), [Nicolás Gómez Dávila](/source/Nicol%C3%A1s_G%C3%B3mez_D%C3%A1vila), the *[Rāmāiana](/source/Ramayana)*, [Jean Gebser](/source/Jean_Gebser), the *[Jin Ping Mei](/source/Jin_Ping_Mei)*, [Alain Daniélou](/source/Alain_Dani%C3%A9lou), [Edward Gibbon](/source/Edward_Gibbon), [Giacomo Casanova](/source/Giacomo_Casanova), [Matsuo Bashō](/source/Oku_no_Hosomichi), [Anagarika Govinda](/source/Anagarika_Govinda), Leonardo da Jandra, [Octavio Paz](/source/Octavio_Paz), the *[One Thousand and One Nights](/source/One_Thousand_and_One_Nights)*, [Peter y Elizabeth Fenwick](/source/Peter_Fenwick_(neuropsychologist)), Jacobo Siruela, the *[Bhagavad Gita](/source/Bhagavad_Gita)*, [Arthur Rimbaud](/source/Arthur_Rimbaud), Jordi Esteva, J. F. Martel, [Henryk Skolimowski](/source/Henryk_Skolimowski), [Sonu Shamdasani](/source/Sonu_Shamdasani), Jeremy Naydler, [E. F. Schumacher](/source/E._F._Schumacher), the *[Upanishads](/source/Upanishads)*, [Jeffrey J. Kripal](/source/Jeffrey_J._Kripal), José Joaquín Parra Bañón, [Bernardo Kastrup](/source/Bernardo_Kastrup), [Algis Uždavinys](/source/Algis_U%C5%BEdavinys), David Fideler, [R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz](/source/R._A._Schwaller_de_Lubicz), the *[Diamond Sutra](/source/Diamond_Sutra)* followed by the *[Heart Sutra](/source/Heart_Sutra)*, [Pythagoras](/source/Pythagoras), [Joseph Campbell](/source/Joseph_Campbell), [Jakob Böhme](/source/Jakob_B%C3%B6hme), [Mario Praz](/source/Mario_Praz), Christoph Schulte, [Peter Kingsley](/source/Peter_Kingsley), the *[Zohar](/source/Zohar)*, [Juan Arnau](/source/Juan_Arnau) or [Edward F. Edinger](/source/Edward_F._Edinger).[11][12]

#### Imaginatio vera

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](/source/Poetry), [myths](/source/Myth), ancient [metaphysical](/source/Metaphysics) visions and visionary experiences. We find authors such as [René Daumal](/source/Ren%C3%A9_Daumal), [Linda Fierz-David](/source/Linda_Fierz-David), [Michael Maier](/source/Michael_Maier), [Max Ernst](/source/Max_Ernst), [Alain Daniélou](/source/Alain_Dani%C3%A9lou), Jacobo Siruela, [Inka Martí](/source/Inka_Mart%C3%AD), [Pim van Lommel](/source/Pim_van_Lommel), [Helen Keller](/source/Helen_Keller), [Kathleen Raine](/source/Kathleen_Raine), [William Blake](/source/William_Blake), [George MacDonald](/source/George_MacDonald), [Patrick Harpur](/source/Patrick_Harpur), [Arthur Zajonc](/source/Arthur_Zajonc), [Remedios Varo](/source/Remedios_Varo), [James Hillman](/source/James_Hillman), [Joscelyn Godwin](/source/Joscelyn_Godwin), Keiron Le Grice, Jules Cashford, [Owen Barfield](/source/Owen_Barfield), Tom Cheetham, [Joseph Campbell](/source/Joseph_Campbell), [André Breton](/source/Andr%C3%A9_Breton), [Gary Lachman](/source/Gary_Lachman), [Károly Kerényi](/source/K%C3%A1roly_Ker%C3%A9nyi), Jeffrey Raff, William K. Mahony, [Hilma af Klint](/source/Hilma_af_Klint), [Edwin A. Abbott](/source/Edwin_Abbott_Abbott), [Charles H. Hinton](/source/Charles_Howard_Hinton), [Claude Bragdon](/source/Claude_Fayette_Bragdon), Pierre Mabille or [Gustav Fechner](/source/Gustav_Fechner).[13][14]

#### Liber naturae

It is a collection entirely dedicated to [nature](/source/Nature), from a new [holistic](/source/Holism) perspective, through its most varied facets. This fourth collection includes authors such as [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](/source/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe), [Henri Bortoft](/source/Henri_Bortoft), [Alfred North Whitehead](/source/Alfred_North_Whitehead), Jeremy Naydler, [Arthur Firstenberg](/source/Arthur_Firstenberg), [Stephan Harding](/source/Stephan_Harding), Changlin Zhang, [Christian de Quincey](/source/Christian_de_Quincey), Ernst Zürcher or [Paul Hawken](/source/Paul_Hawken).[15][16][17][18]

### Other collections

In addition to those mentioned, authors from outside the collection are added, such as [Jean-Martin Fortier](/source/Jean-Martin_Fortier), and works dedicated to the Spanish noble house [Casa de Alba de Tormes](/source/House_of_Alba), such as *[El gran duque de Alba](/source/Fernando_%C3%81lvarez_de_Toledo,_3rd_Duke_of_Alba)*, the *[Palacio de Liria](/source/Liria_Palace)* and the *[Palacio de las Dueñas](/source/Palacio_de_las_Due%C3%B1as)*.[19]

## Awards

- Award for the best editorial work for the artisanal beauty of literary publishing, awarded by the *[La Vanguardia](/source/La_Vanguardia)* supplement, "Fashion & Arts", on November 28, 2019.[20]

## References

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## External links

- [Official website](http://www.edicionesatalanta.com/)

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