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Hollywood as imaginary in the work of Horacio Quiroga and Ramon Gomez de la Serna.(Critical essay)
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West Virginia University Philological Papers
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September 22, 2006
- Author:
- Williams, Lee
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During the Silent Film Era, two important writers initiate a round of filmic narrative: Horacio Quiroga (1878-1937, Uruguay) and Ramon Gomez de la Serna (1888-1963, Spain). Their fiction thematically incorporates the celluloid art, its makers, actors, and spectators, its inherent voyeurism, and its fragmentary structure. Both set their highly stylized movie tales on the studio grounds of Tinseltown itself or within the confines of cinemas around the world. Quiroga's four "Hollywood stories" have generally gone unnoticed, or are considered a frothy departure. They are "'Miss Dorothy Phillips, mi esposa" (1919), "El espectro" (1921), "El puritano" (1926), and "El vampiro" ...