TY  - BOOK
AU  - John A. McCulloch
PY  - 2012
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781453906538
TI  - The Dilemma of Modernity
T2  - Ramón Gómez de la Serna and the Spanish Modernist Novel
DO  - 10.3726/978-1-4539-0653-8
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1054433
N2  - The Dilemma of Modernity is a study of the evolution of Ramón Gómez 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, Buñuel and Lorca, Ramón Gómez de la Serna’s work has suffered from critical neglect.  The Dilemma of Modernity sets Gómez 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.
KW  - Modernism, Spanish novel, Gómez de la Serna, Ramón, Prosa, Moderne, Serna, Narrative fiction, Avant-garde, Surrealism, Experimental prose
LA  - English
ER  -