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Book SynopsisA celebrity in his own day, who gave lectures dressed as Napoleon or seated on the back of an elephant, Ramón Gómez de la Serna is the most representative writer of the interwar Spanish avant-garde. This book explores Gómez de la Serna's art and his quest to break down the barriers between literature and life, addressing two elements - already present in his work - of radical relevance in today's cultural debates: the relation of humans to the material world and the reduction of all experience to a singular individuality. Bringing Gómez de la Serna to an Anglophone audience, it reveals him to be the embodiment of a new kind of art on both sides of the Atlantic.
Table of ContentsIntroduction - Ricardo Fernández Romero 1. Ramón, the Artist and His Brand - Ricardo Fernández Romero 2. Ramón as Art-Collector and Visual Artist: Slum of Oddities - Eduardo Alaminos López 3. Ramón and Photography. 'The Dead Thing' - Humberto Huergo Cardoso 4. Ramón and Theater: Staging Reform in El drama del palacio deshabitado (1909)" - Nicolás Fernández-Medina 5. Ramón and the New Materialism: The Ecstasy of Objects - Juli Highfill 6. Ramón and Cervantes - Alan Hoyle Gómez de la Serna's Life, a Chronology A Guide to Gómez de la Serna´s Literary Works
