Ramón Gómez de la Serna

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Ramón Gómez de la Serna, ca.1931
Bust of R. Gómez de la Serna. Part of the Gómez monument in Madrid ( E. Pérez , 1972 ).

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

Live and act

His father was a lawyer and a 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 newspapers El Sol , La Voz , Revista de Occidente and El Liberal , where he emerged as an advocate of the new literary currents of the avant-garde . He was "elegant, educated, witty, the personification of the avant-garde and the surrealistic happening, of inexhaustible imagination and creativity."

Gómez de la Serna wrote around 100 works in a wide variety of literary forms and genres : novels , dramas , essays , biographies . In addition, he invented an independent genre of literature, the Greguerías , which he defined as follows: humor + metaphor = Greguería. He wrote thousands of these aphorism-like short texts.

He was a co-founder of the Spanish PEN and secretary of the Ateneo de Madrid cultural club . The literary regulars' table he founded in the Café Pombo in Madrid was well known.

From 1908 he was in a relationship with the writer Carmen de Burgos (1867-1936), known by the stage name Colombine . In 1931 he married the Argentine writer of Russian descent Luisa Sofovich . In 1933 he traveled to Buenos Aires and did not return to Spain because of the civil war . In 1963 he died in Buenos Aires. His body was transferred to Madrid and buried in the Panteón de Hombres Ilustres .

Gómez monument in Madrid ( E. Pérez , 1972 ).

Works (selection)

Autobiography
  • Automoribundia (1888-1948) . Madrid 1974 (2 volumes)
  • Nostalgias de Madrid . 1955.
    • German: Fritz Rudolf Fries (Ed.): Madrid. Walks. Wagenbach, Berlin 1992. ISBN 3-8031-1131-5 (translated by Gerda Schattenberg Rincón).
prose
  • Greguerías . Madrid 1917.
    • German: The dream is a depot for misplaced objects. Greguerías. Silver & Goldstein, Berlin 1989 ISBN 3-927463-02-7 .
    • German: Greguerías. The poetic vein of things (Straelener manuscripts, vol. 11). Straelener Manuskript-Verlag, Straelen 1994, ISBN 3-89107-037-3 (illustrated by Klaus Detjen; ​​translated by Rudolf Wittkopf).
  • Flor de greguerías . 1933.
  • Total de greguerías . 1955.
  • El Chalet de las rosas . 1923.
    • German: The rose castle. The novel of a bluebeard . Dioskuren-Verlag, Mainz 1929.
  • El torero Caracho . 1926.
    • German: Torero Caracho. Novel . Gatza, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-928262-50-5 (translated by Eduard Trautner).
  • El caballero del hongo gris . 1928.
  • Senos . Buenos Aires 1979 (4 volumes; first edition Madrid 1918).
  • La viuda blanca y negra . 1918.
  • La mujer de ámbar . 1927.
  • La Nardo . 1930.
  • La quinta de Palmira .
  • El Circo . Valencia 1924 (with a foreword by the Fratellini brothers).
    • German: The circus . European Publishing House, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-434-50086-3 (translated by Fritz Rudolf Fries).
  • Piso bajo . Madrid 1961.
Non-fiction
  • El Greco . El visionario de la pintura .
    • German: El Greco. Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1990. ISBN 3-364-00204-5 (translated by Maria Schwauss).
  • El Picassismo .
  • Dalí . Madrid 1977.
    • German: Dalí . Rheingauer VG, Eltville 1989. ISBN 3-88102-049-7 (EA Wiesbaden 1961; translated by Eva Krafft-Bassermann and Marlen Kleinefenn).
Work edition
  • Ioanna Zlotescu (Ed.): Obras completasd . Círculo de Lectores, Barcelona 1996ff (19 volumes)

literature

  • Eduardo Alaminos López: Los despachos de Ramón Gómez de la Serna . Ayuntamiento de Madrid, Madrid 2014, ISBN 978-84-7812-768-9 .
  • Gaspard Gómez de la Serna: Ramón. Obra y vida . Editorial Taurus, Madrid 1963.
  • Laurie-Anne Laget: La fabrique de l'écrivain. Les premières "greguerías" de Ramón Gómez de la Serna 1910–1923 . Casa de Velázquez, Madrid 2012, ISBN 978-84-96820-76-0 .
  • Guy Mercadier: Autoportrait with retouches . In: L'autoportrait en Espagne. Litterature et Peinture (Études hispaniques; Vol. 19). CARH, Aix-en-Provence 1992, ISBN 2-85399-297-7 .
  • José Paulino Ayuso: Ramón Gómez de la Serna. La vida dramatizada . Universidad, Murcia 2012, ISBN 978-84-1546-308-5 .
  • Francisco Umbral : Ramon y las Vanguardias . Espasa-Calpe, Madrid 1978, ISBN 84-239-2050-X .

swell

  1. ↑ Luzmaria Jiménez Faro, Antonio Porpetta: Carolina Coronado. Apunte biográfico y antología . Ediciones Torremozas, Madrid 1983.
  2. ↑ Ramón Gómez de la Serna at Perlentaucher (author portrait).
  3. ↑ Paul Fratellini (1877–1940), François Fratellini (1886–1951) and Albert Fratellini (1886–1961)

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personal data
SURNAME Gomez de la Serna, Ramón
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Madrid
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1963
Place of death Buenos Aires