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.