The Dilemma of Modernity: Ramón Gómez de la Serna and the Spanish Modernist Novel

ISBN-13: 9780820481838 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 193 str.

McCulloch, John A.

Opis

The Dilemma of Modernity is a study of the evolution of Ramon Gomez de la Serna s narrative fiction within the context of European Modernism. At a time when Joyce, Kafka, Proust, and Woolfe were experimenting with prose fiction, very little is known about Spain s contribution to the novel. Despite his years in Paris, when it was still considered the cultural capital of Europe, and his championing of the avant-garde in Spain in the 1920s through his literary salon Pombo, which attracted figures such as Borges, Picasso, Huidobro, Bunuel and Lorca, Ramon Gomez de la Serna s work has suffered from critical neglect.
The Dilemma of Modernity sets Gomez de la Serna s work within the cultural and historical context of the time and traces his evolution from aesthete to promoter of the avant-garde, modernist, and existentialist."

O autorze

The Author: John A. McCulloch is a full-time lecturer at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. He received his Ph.D. on the Spanish avant-garde novel from the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom.