Ramonismos contemporáneos : la greguería en las obras de Juan Manuel de Prada, Juan Bonilla y Ray Loriga

This essay analyzes the presence of the greguería in the works of three authors that started to publish in the ’90s, a period in which novels based on a harsh juvenile realism were very widespread. However, in that decade, Ramón Gómez de la Serna surprisingly was taken as a model by Juan Manuel de Prada and Juan Bonilla, while his influence in the texts of Ray Loriga is subtler and not so obvious, because his less exuberant writing tends to combine the greguería’s perspicacity with the laconicism of song lyrics and the prose of Marguerite Duras. For the first two writers it was a way to rebel against the dominant realism through a caustic or a witty humour, whilst in Loriga that aphoristic style was determined by a personal approach due to his sensibility and his melancholic rebellion against society.