Barandal (magazine)

Barandal was founded by four students of the National Preparatory School at the Colegio de San Ildefonso in Mexico City in 1931: Rafael López Malo, Octavio Paz, Salvador Toscano and Arnulfo Martínez Lavalle, whose names appeared as the collective editorial board.

[1] The name Barandal (English: balustrade) was in reference to the galleries surrounding the college's central courtyard.

Because the editorial team generally gathered at one such location, their classmates began to refer to them as los barandales.

[1] In addition to the regular issues, a number of supplements were published[a] containing works by writers including the poets Carlos Pellicer, Xavier Villaurrutia and Salvador Novo.

[4][5][6] In March 2021, on the occasion of what would have been Paz's 107th birthday, the Colegio de San Ildefonso and the UNAM announced that the title was to be revived.