Movieland

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First-ever new edition of Movieland, the 1930 English translation of Spanish proto-surrealist Ramon Gomez de la Serna’s 1923 novel Cinelandia. 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., Ramon 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