by Alejandro Casona · Austral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788467036275
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«Flor de leyendas / Vida de Francisco Pizarro» is Alejandro Casona's book of stories and legends, published by Austral in paperback (272 pages).
Fourteen narratives bringing together myths and legends from written traditions such as Indian, Arabic, Greek, Germanic and Scandinavian. Casona brings universal legendary literature to young readers and arranges the stories from myth and the fantastic to the epic; Vida de Francisco Pizarro recreates the epic of the Extremaduran conqueror.
The collection won the National Literature Prize in 1932. This edition, number 2 in the Contemporánea series, includes an introduction by Mª Teresa Cristina García Álvarez and Modesto González Cobas.
Recommended for young readers and for those approaching the myths and legends of the universal literary tradition.
Alejandro Rodríguez Álvarez, known as Alejandro Casona was a Spanish poet and playwright born in Besullo, Spain, a member of the Generation of '27. Casona received his bachelor's degree in Gijon and later studied at the University of Murcia. After Franco's rise in 1936, he was forced, like many Spanish intellectuals, to leave Spain. He lived in Buenos Aires, Argentina until April 1962, when he definitively returned to Spain.
