Ramón Gómez de la Serna

Ramón Gómez de la Serna ( born July 3, 1888 in Madrid, † January 13, 1963 in Buenos Aires ) was a Spanish writer.

His father was a lawyer and ministerial official, his mother, the niece of the poet Carolina Coronado. Ramón studied law, became a lawyer, but never practiced the profession. Instead, he worked as a journalist in the newspaper El Sol, La Voz, Revista de Occidente and El Liberal, where he distinguished himself as an advocate of the new literary trends of the avant-garde. He was "elegant, educated, witty, the personification of the avant-garde and surrealist happenings, of inexhaustible imagination and creativity. "

Gómez de la Serna wrote some 100 works in a variety of literary forms and genres: novels, plays, essays, biographies. In addition, he invented an independent literary genre, the Greguerías which he defined as follows: Humor = Greguería metaphor. Of these aphorisms like short texts he wrote thousands.

He was co-founder of the Spanish P.E.N. and Secretary of the culture clubs Ateneo de Madrid. Large notoriety reached the he founded literary Stammtisch Pombo in Madrid.

From 1908 he was with the writer Carmen de Burgos, known by the stage name Colombine, romantically involved. In 1931 he married the Argentine writer Luisa Sofovich Russian descent. In 1933 he traveled to Buenos Aires and returned because of the civil war did not return to Spain. In 1963, he died in Buenos Aires. His body was transferred to Madrid and Panteon de Hombres buried in Ilustres.

Works (selection)

  • Greguerías (1917 )
  • Flor de greguerías (1933 )
  • Total de greguerías (1955)
  • El Chalet de las rosas (1923 )
  • El torero Caracho (1926 )
  • El caballero del hongo gris (1928 )
  • Senos (1918 )
  • La blanca y negra viuda (1918 )
  • La mujer de ámbar (1927 )
  • La Nardo (1930 )
  • La quinta de Palmira
  • Automoribundia, Nostalgias de Madrid ( 1955). Autobiography.

In German language

  • The Cirkus. Fwd brothers Fratellini. Translator's afterword and Fritz Rudolf Fries. European publishing house in Hamburg 2000. ISBN 3-434-50086-3
  • Greguerías. The poetic vein of things. Drawing. by Klaus Detjen. Trolley and Übers Rudolf Wittkopf. Straelener manuscripts, Straelen 1994. ISBN 3-89107-037-3
  • Madrid: walks. Trolley and Nachw Fritz Rudolf Fries. Übers Gerda Schattenbergschanze Rincón. Wagenbach, Berlin 1992. ISBN 3-8031-1131-5
  • Torero Caracho. Novel. Gatza, Berlin 1991. ISBN 3-928262-50-5
  • El Greco. Dt. Paraphrase of Mary Schwauss. Verl art, Dresden 1990. ISBN 3-364-00204-5
  • The truth about Picasso and Cubism. Elke translator's defense. Wagenbach, Berlin 1990. ISBN 3-8031-1115-3
  • Dalí. Translator's Eve Krafft Bassermann & Marlen Kleinefenn. Rheingau, Eltville 1989. ISBN 3-88102-049-7
  • The dream is a depot for misplaced items. Greguerías. Silver & Goldstein, Berlin 1989 ISBN 3-927463-02-7
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