Calle de Enrique Jardiel Poncela

Enrique Jardiel Poncela was born in Madrid in 1901, the son of a journalist and a painter, and as a child had the poet Manuel Machado for a neighbor, who encouraged him to write. He ended up inventing a humor of his own that he called improbable: comedies where the absurd and the fantastic ordered the plot with a wild logic. He premiered hits like Eloísa está debajo de un almendro and wrote novels with titles as much his own as ¡Espérame en Siberia, vida mía!. In the early 1930s Fox hired him and he traveled to Hollywood to write the Spanish versions of the American films. He died in 1952, ruined and ill, and asked for an epitaph worthy of his irony about the price of reaping the highest praise.