User:ValkyrieOfWater/Ernesto Giménez Caballero

Education and military service
He took the baccalaureate education at the Instituto San Isidro. Between 1916 and 1920 he took studies in Letras at the Central University (where he wrote for the Conservative journal Filosofía y Letras and helped to launch a "Group of Socialist Students", some of whose members would soon after establish the Spanish Communist Party), and then collaborated for a time at the Centro de Estudios Históricos before moving to the University of Strasbourg to work as lecturer in Spanish. Influenced by José Ortega y Gasset's critique of democracy, however, he became a nationalist in the vein of Miguel de Unamuno.

He performed his military service in Spanish Morocco, although his 1923 book on the experience, Notas Marruecas de un Soldado, caused such outrage amongst the generals that he was imprisoned for a time before being pardoned by General and Dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera.

The avant-garde years and the conversion to fascism
As founder and director of the avant-garde magazine La Gaceta Literaria (1927–1932), literary critic for El Solnewspaper, and collaborator of Ortega y Gasset's Revista de Occidente, Giménez Caballero published his most notable avant-garde works during this period: Carteles y Los toros, las castañuelas y la Virgen (1927), Yo, inspector de alcantarillas (surreal stories, 1928), Hércules jugando a los dados (1928), Julepe de menta (1929) y Trabalenguas sobre España (1931).

'''Giménez Caballero was also involved in the rising experimental film scene in Madrid, opening a cineclub with Luis Buñuel in 1928. His works as a filmmaker in those years include Noticiario del cineclub (1930), Esencia de verbena(1931), and Los judíos de patria Española (1931).'''