Eight Novellas (Wor[l]ds of Change: Latin American and Iberian Literature)

The eight novellas collected in this book display the humor, exuberant spirit, love of language, and insight of the Spanish writer Ram?n G?mez de la Serna, a central figure in the European and Latin American avant-garde, and a key contributor of Anglo-American imagism to Spanish literature. Father of the prose and poetry of the "Generation of '27," G?mez de la Serna was admired by T.S. Eliot, Macedonio Fern?ndez, Oliverio Girondo, Octavio Paz, Pablo Neruda, Alfonso Reyes, and was a source of inspiration for Borges, Garc?a M?rquez, Cort?zar, and Pizarnik. These novellas, with their humorous and witty exaggerations of everyday human foibles, their simple story lines and often-surprising endings, are presented here in the original Spanish with a clear English translation on facing pages. This book will be useful in intermediate and advanced Spanish classes and in translation courses. The eight novellas collected in this book display the humor, exuberant spirit, love of language, and insight of the Spanish writer Ramon Gomez de la Serna, a central figure in the European and Latin American avant-garde, and a key contributor of Anglo-American imagism to Spanish literature. Father of the prose and poetry of the Generation of '27, Gomez de la Serna was admired by T.S. Eliot, Macedonio Fernandez, Oliverio Girondo, Octavio Paz, Pablo Neruda, Alfonso Reyes, and was a source of inspiration for Borges, Garcia Marquez, Cortazar, and Pizarnik. These novellas, with their humorous and witty exaggerations of everyday human foibles, their simple story lines and often-surprising endings, are presented here in the original Spanish with a clear English translation on facing pages. This book will be useful in intermediate and advanced Spanish classes and in translation courses. TABLE OF CONTENTS......Page 8 Acknowledgments......Page 10 Introduction......Page 12 List of novellas translated into English in this text......Page 22 A note on the Spanish texts......Page 24 Se presentó el hígado /Knock, Knock, I’m Your Liver......Page 26 El hombre de la galería /The Man in the Galleria......Page 50 El gran griposo /The Flumaster......Page 72 Aventuras de un sinsombrerista / The Trials and Tribulations of the Hater of Hats......Page 100 Ella+Ella–El+El /She+She–He+He......Page 130 El cólera azul /The Blue Cholera......Page 164 ¡Hay que matar el Morse! /Kill the Morse!......Page 198 El dueño del átomo /The Master of the Atom......Page 238 Works Cited and Consulted......Page 270 Introduction -- Knock, Knock, I'm Your Liver -- The Man In The Galleria -- The Flumaster -- The Trials And Tribulations Of The Hater Of Hats -- She+she-he+he -- The Blue Cholera -- Kill The Morse! -- The Master Of The Atom. Ramon Gomez De La Serna ; Translated By Herlinda Saitz, Robert L. Saitz. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [259]-260).