"Ernesto Giménez Caballero: the Vanguard Years" by Andrew A. Anderson

"Andrew A. Anderson, Ernesto Giménez Caballero: The Vanguard Years (1921-1931)" by Andrew A. Anderson.  Ernesto Giménez Caballero (1899-1988) was a key figure on the Spanish literary scene in the 1920s.  He is best known for his editorship of La Gaceta Literaria (1927-1932), an exceptional literary journal that still today offers a remarkable depth and breadth of insight into art and letters over the latter half of the twenties in Spain.  Alongside this magazine, Giménez Caballero is also sometimes remembered as a prolific journalist, an indefatigable lecturer and traveler, the co-founder (with Luis Buñuel) of the CineClub Español, a filmmaker, the proprietor of La Galería, and the inventor and sole practitioner of the new mixed-media genre, the cartel literario.    As a writer, he will be associated for many with some of the foundational ideological texts of Falange Española, but before he began to produce those books (from 1932 onwards) he had already published nine very diverse volu