Ernesto Giménez Caballero
| Ernesto Giménez Caballero | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Ernesto Giménez Caballero 2 August 1899 Madrid |
| Died | 15 May 1988 (aged 88) Madrid |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Alma mater | Complutense University of Madrid, University of Strasbourg |
| Known for | Film maker, polemicist |
| Notable work | Genio de España, La Nueva Catolicidad |
| Political party | Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las JONS |
Ernesto Giménez Caballero (2 August 1899 in Madrid – 14 May 1988 in Madrid), also known as Gecé, was a Spanish writer, film director, diplomat, and pioneer of Falangism. His work has been categorized as being part of the Surrealist movement, while Stanley G. Payne has described him as the Spanish Gabriele d'Annunzio.
Educated at the Complutense University of Madrid and to doctorate level at the University of Strasbourg, he initially espoused a moderate socialism. 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, which was influenced by Charles Maurras, caused such outrage amongst the generals that he was imprisoned for a time before being pardoned by General and Dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera.
As literary critic for El Sol he went to Italy in 1928 and struck up friendships with such fascist thinkers as Giuseppe Bottai, Giovanni Gentile, Curzio Malaparte, and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, eventually becoming an adherent of fascist beliefs himself.
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