80 pages
Size: 6,3 x 9 inches.
Year of release: 1979
Albino y asociados, editores.
There is contemporary modesty in employing the word "genius." Every genius seems inevitably referred to the past, however vivid and present its work remains. Leonardo, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Goya, are easily put, as a comfortable layer, the supreme adjective, without anyone bothering. But how to call a man of our day "genius", without being reproached for excessive? And yet, Ramón Gómez de la Serna was, plain and simple, a genius like Gutierrez Solana, his defendant and capitalist painter. Only Einsten or Picasso deserve, in popular consensus, the term "genius"? The list is much more extensive than it seems. Is Ramón Gómez de la Serna's work less rich, less surprising, less creative, less fruitful than that of Quevedo or Cervantes?
With his usual and overflowing genius, Gomez de la Serna gave us his Interpretation of tango, full of glimpses, divinations, intuitions, finds, now Carlos Torrallordona enriches and conpleted with his magnificent woodcuts.
Leon Benarós