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...