Ramón Gómez de la Serna (Herlinda Charpentier Saitz, Robert L. Saitz, translators)-Eight novellas -Peter Lang (2005)

Ramón Gómez de la Serna Puig (July 3, 1888, Madrid – January 13, 1963, Buenos Aires) was a Spanish writer, dramatist and avant-garde agitator. He strongly influenced surrealist film maker Luis Buñuel.

Ramón Gómez de la Serna was especially known for "Greguerías" - a short form of poetry that roughly corresponds to the one-liner in comedy. The Gregueria is especially able to grant a new and often humorous perspective. Serna published over 90 works in all literary genres. In 1933, he was invited to Buenos Aires. He stayed there during the Spanish Civil War and the following Franco regime and died there.

Pablo Neruda, who in his prologue to Ramón’s Obras selectas [Selected Works] (1971) claimed that ‘la gran figura del surrealismo, entre todos los países, ha sido Ramón’ [the major figure of surrealism, in any country, has been Ramón].