Ramón Gómez de la Serna
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Ramón Gómez de la Serna y Puig, born in Madrid, was a Spanish writer, dramatist and avant-garde agitator. He strongly influenced surrealist film maker Luis Buñuel.
Ramón Gómez de la Serna, ca 1928
Bronze bust of R. Gómez de la Serna. Detail of the monument to him in Madrid (E. Pérez, 1972).
ca 1931
Octavio Paz
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Octavio Paz Lozano was a Mexican philosopher, poet, and diplomat. For his body of work, he was awarded the 1977 Jerusalem Prize, the 1981 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the 1982 Neustadt International Pri
Ramón Gómez de la Serna
…acknowledging his imminent death and welcomed it. Despite the decline in Gómez's reputation, two notable voices in particular declared their admiration: Octavio Paz, who wrote the following in a letter to Papeles de Son Armadans in 1967: 'Para mí es el gran escritor español: el Escritor o, mejor, la Escritura…
Paz in 1988
Octavio Paz
II International Congress of Writers for the Defense of Culture.