Prosa modernista hispanoamericana. Antología by Roberto Yahni (ed.)

Contributed by Florian Hardwig


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This anthology of Hispanic American modernist prose was edited by Roberto Yahni and published by Alianza Editorial in 1974.

Cover designer Daniel Gil used Roberta III Initials for the typography. This style of Robert Trogman’s Roberta family is virtually identical to Staudel Xenotype J (1962), but unlike Photo-Lettering’s typeface, it doesn’t have a lowercase. A dry transfer version of Roberta III was available from Mecanorma by 1973.

The chosen cover art is Schwäne in der Abendsonne (“Swans in the Evening Light”), a lithographic design for a stain glass window made by German artist Hans Christiansen (1866–1945) and reproduced in number 33 of Jugend from 1898. As such, it’s a stylistic match for the Art Nouveau-inspired typeface. I fail to see a connection to Hispanic American literature, though.

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