by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423974825
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«Desde mi celda» is a collection of literary letters by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, published by Espasa in paperback (356 pages, in Spanish).
The volume brings together nine letters that Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer wrote during his stay at the monastery of Veruela, at the foot of Moncayo. It alternates descriptions of landscapes and customs with personal reflections, offering a literary and journalistic vision of rural nineteenth-century Spain.
The work belongs to the Austral Collection (no. 482). The original title of the work is «Cartas desde mi celda». The edition includes an introductory study and explanatory notes.
A work for readers interested in Spanish Romanticism, Bécquer's prose and nineteenth-century travel literature.
Gustavo Adolfo Claudio Domínguez Bastida, better known as Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, was a Spanish Romantic poet and writer, also a playwright, literary columnist, and talented in drawing. He is one of the most important figures in Spanish literature, with some considering him the most read Spanish writer after Miguel de Cervantes. He adopted the alias of Bécquer as his brother Valeriano Bécquer, a painter, had done earlier. He was associated with the romanticism and post-romanticism movements and wrote while realism enjoyed success in Spain. He was moderately well-known during his life, but it was after his death that most of his works were published. His best-known works are the Rhymes and the Legends, usually published together as Rimas y leyendas. These poems and tales are essential to studying Spanish literature and common reading for high-school students in Spanish-speaking countries.
