This book is a tribute to Ramón Gómez de la Serna. A plea for the importance and power of humor in the face of cynicism and irony.

Humor was something very serious for Ramón Gómez de la Serna, an essential axis in his life and career as an avant-garde artist. With a prologue and edited by the artist, researcher, and professor of aesthetics,
Avant-garde, cinema and history of visual arts Alicia G. Hierro, this book recovers various contributions by Gómez de la Serna on humor, a subject on which he reflected practically
throughout his literary life. Among these, the complete article "Gravity and Importance of Humor," originally published in 1930, is included—a veritable treatise on the different forms of
humor and a fervent praise of humor, as a superior stage "to judge the life that passes and disarm the treacherous," an uncompromising defense of its dissolving effect on the adversities of modernity, against its negative reverse: irony, sarcasm and satire, whose moralizing and elitist mission he categorically rejects.