Greguería

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Greguería is a small form of Spanish literature .

The term is derived from Spanish griego , here in the sense of "incomprehensible stuff". The Greguería was invented by Ramón Gómez de la Serna (1888–1963), named and, according to his own statement, spread from 1910 onwards. He created the formula: "Greguería = humor + metaphor". Elsewhere he calls them "Kurzgedanken". Its formal definition includes extreme brevity, prose, independence from a context, a non-discursive statement. The intended effect is the expression of a surprisingly new perspective, an often humorous point of emphasis. The Greguería is genetically related to the metaphor , the aphorism and the maxim .

Helmich places the Greguería in the tradition of an impressionistic metaphernaphorism. The play on words (sometimes the pun ) is a special characteristic linguistic displays ( "la liebre it libre"). Here, linguistic chance, similar to concrete poetry , is granted a cognitive function in that it is supposed to track down a deeper reality behind the chaos of the individual things. In the Greguería one can see a forerunner of surrealist stylistic devices (eg "el grillo mide las pulsaciones de la noche").

literature

  • Ramón Gómez de la Serna: Greguerías . Selected and transferred by Marlene Mies. Limes, Wiesbaden 1958.
  • Ramón Gómez de la Serna: Ismos . Guadarrama, Madrid 1975, ISBN 84-250-0197-8 .
  • Werner Helmich: Ideología literaria y visión del mundo en las greguerías de Ramón Gómez de la Serna . In: Iberoromania 16, Niemeyer, Tübingen 1982, ISSN  0019-0993 , pp. 54-83.
  • Nigel Dennis: Studies on Ramón Gómez de la Serna . Dovehouse, Ottawa 1988, ISBN 0-919473-85-7 .
  • Ramón Gómez de la Serna: Greguerías - the poetic vein of things . Selected and translated by Rudolf Wittkopf. (Straelener manuscript, 11). Straelener-Manuskript-Verlag, Straelen 1994, ISBN 3-89107-037-3 .