Movieland

<p>First-ever new edition of <em>Movieland </em>the 1930 English translation of Spanish proto-surrealist Ramón Gómez de la Serna's 1923 novel <em>Cinélandia</em>. According to translator Angel Flores <em>Movieland</em> deals with an ideal Hollywood with a Hollywood more amazing if that were possible than the one we know.</p><p><br></p><p>Brilliant satiric fantasy. </p><p>- <em>Sioux City Journal</em></p><p><br></p><p>A baroque and flippant literary antic . . . the novel is thoroughly satisfactory. </p><p>- <em>New York Times</em></p><p><br></p><p>For a man who has never been in Hollywood not even the U.S.A. Ramón did well uncommonly so by the allegedly fictitious characters of his opus. Each chapter almost each paragraph is a complete sparkling little jewel in itself. Synthesized they become equally sparkling witty cynical yet refreshing facets of a larger gem. </p><p>- <em>Brooklyn Daily Eagle</em></p>