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RamOn GOmez de la Serna[rAmOn´ gO´mAth dA lA ser´nA] Pronunciation Key, 1888–1963, Spanish novelist, biographer, and critic, b. Madrid. One of the most prolific and imaginative of modern Spanish writers, GOmez de la Serna was a precursor of surrealism. He sought to express the subconscious and portrayed modern man as a mannequin. He invented the greguerIa, a kind of surrealist metaphor in epigram form combining humor and poetic insight. Two collections of these are his Flor de greguerIas (1933) and Some GreguerIas (tr. 1944). GOmez de la Serna is known simply as RamOn, and his mode of literary expression as ramonismo. Among his many works are an autobiography (1948), lives of El Greco and Goya, and the novels El doctor inverosImil (1921) and El torero Caracho (1926). AntologIa (1955) and Obras completas (1956) are later collections of his works.
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