Movieland

First-ever new edition of Movieland, the 1930 English translation of Spanish proto-surrealist Ramón Gómez de la Serna's 1923 novel Cinélandia. According to translator Angel Flores, Movieland "deals with an ideal Hollywood, with a Hollywood more amazing, if that were possible, than the one we know."




"Brilliant satiric fantasy."

- Sioux City Journal




"A baroque and flippant literary antic . . . the novel is thoroughly satisfactory."

- New York Times




"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."

- Brooklyn Daily Eagle