Alfonso Reyes and Spain: His Dialogue with Unamuno, Valle-Inclán, Ortega Y Gasset, Jiménez, and Gómez de la SernaAlfonso Reyes, the great humanist and man of letters of contemporary Spanish America, began his literary career just before the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution of 1910. He spearheaded the radical shift in Mexico's cultural and philosophical orientation as a leading member of the famous "Athenaeum Generation." The crucial years of his literary formation, however, were those he spent in Spain (1914 1924). He arrived in Madrid unknown and unsure of