Gómez De La Serna, Ramón
Related Category: Spanish and Portuguese Literature: Biographies
(rämōn´ gō´māth dā lä sĕr´nä), 1888–1963, Spanish novelist, biographer, and critic, b. Madrid. One of the most prolific and imaginative of modern Spanish writers, Gómez de la Serna was a precursor of surrealism. He sought to express the subconscious and portrayed modern man as a mannequin. He invented the
greguería, a kind of surrealist metaphor in epigram form combining humor and poetic insight. Two collections of these are his
Flor de greguerías (1933) and
Some Greguerías (tr. 1944). Gómez de la Serna is known simply as Ramón, and his mode of literary expression as
ramonismo. Among his many works are an autobiography (1948), lives of El Greco and Goya, and the novels
El doctor inverosímil (1921) and
El torero Caracho (1926).
Antología (1955) and
Obras completas (1956) are later collections of his works.
