Author: Gómez de la Serna, Ramón [1888-1963]
Title: Novisimas greguerias, 1929
Description: Madrid, Ernesto Gimenez, 1929. Half-cloth. 22x16cm, 200 pp. Contemporary binder's half-cloth. Binding corners rubbed.. Pencilled underlinings and notes to many text pages. Just Good. ¶ [Ramón Gómez de la Serna Puig was a Spanish writer, dramatist and avant- garde agitator. He strongly influenced surrealist film maker Luis Buñuel. Ramón Gómez de la Serna was especially known for "Greguerías" - a short form of poetry that roughly corresponds to the one-liner in comedy. The Gregueria is especially able to grant a new and often humorous perspective.Serna published over 90 works in all literary genres. In 1933, he was invited to Buenos Aires. He stayed there during the Spanish Civil War and the following Franco regime and died there....During the First World War Ramón, as he liked to be known, became neutral Spain’s chief exponent of avant-garde writing, establishing a base in the literary tertulia he founded at the centre of Madrid in the old Café Pombo....It was in fact the greguerías that first attracted the attention of Valery Larbaud, who in the 1920s soon had him translated and lionized in France...." - wikipedia].

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