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Greguerias: squeals/pipsqueaks? The work of Ramon Gomez de la Serna.

Publication: Verbatim
Publication Date: 22-SEP-03
Format: Online - approximately 893 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Born in Madrid in 1891, and later living in Buenos Aires, Ramon Gomez de la Serna (he telescoped himself to just 'Ramon') first published his greguerias in 1910. This cornucopious author was also a globettroting lecturer, orating on occasion in circuses while swinging from a trapeze or perched on an elephant's back.

Though he no more came out of nowhere than any of us, he was a true original. What he called his "danceable philosophy" harks back to medieval Spanish Arabic poetry, which is based on acute observation (essential in the desert, but still serviceable in cities and gardens) of human, animal, and botanical phenomena. Or climatic: here is Ramon on various weathers:

Rain is melancholy because it takes us back to the time...

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