The Gregueria of Ramon Gomez De La Serna: a Study of the Genesis, Composition, and Significance of a New Literary Genre
This dissertation has been 64—6917 microfilmed exactly as received JACKSON, Richard Lawson, 1937- THE GREGUERIA OF RAMON GOMEZ DE LA SERNA: A STUDY OF THE GENESIS, COMPOSI TION, AND SIGNIFICANCE OF A NEW LITERARY GENRE. The Ohio State University, Ph.D., 1963 Language and Literature, modern University Microfilms, Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan naturaleza," the new monster replacing Lope de Vega as an excellent example of creative v ita lity . In 195^ he celebrated his golden an niversary in literature, and during the last fifty-eight years he has produced around one hundred and f if ty volumes and thousands of a rtic le s written for newspapers, periodicals, and magazines all over the world. An edition of his complete works i s coming out, two volumes of which have already been released. There is also an edition of his Total de Greauerifas as well as separate volumes and editions of his complete biographies and biographical sketches. Gomes de la Serna has cultivated many of the existing genres and has attempted others.2 Among his huge output are about a dozen plays, over thirty novels and innumerable books and essays of criti cism which include prefaces to works of such writers as Guillaume Apollinaire, Oscar Wilde, Colette, Estebanez, Calderon, etc. These prefaces alone represent a respectable body of critical work. He has written many biographies and some biographical sketches of such figures as John RuskLn, Oscar Wilde, Azorfn, Goya, Valle-Inclan, Velazquez, El Greco, Edgar Allan Poe, Quevedo, Baudelaire, Nerval, Pirandello, both Machados, Ibsen, Eohegaray, Benavente, Blasec Ibanez, Pardo Bazan, P&ez Galdos, Kafka, Manuel de Falla, Juan Ramon Jimenez, Keyserling, Jean Cassou, Rerny de Gourmont, Eugenio d'Ors, Baroja, the Goncourt Brothers, Mallanne, Unamuno, Colette, and Lope de Vega, his most recent.
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