Ramón Gómez de la Serna

Ramón Gómez de la Serna was born in Madrid in 1888, the son of a lawyer involved in politics. He studied law without ever practising it and turned to journalism. He wrote for the review Prometeo, which published the Spanish translation of the futurist manifesto in 1909, then every Saturday from 1914 to 1936 gathered at the Café Pombo a tertulia, a hub of the avant-garde. He gave a lecture perched on an elephant at the Cirque d'Hiver in Paris and read a speech seated on a trapeze. The author of about a hundred books, he settled in Buenos Aires at the start of the civil war and died there in 1963.

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