by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420617459
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«Leyendas» is Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer's collection of Romantic tales, published by Alianza in paperback (314 pages, in Spanish).
It brings together short narratives set in Gothic landscapes and remote eras, based on oral traditions and folk legends. Bécquer combines the supernatural with love and fate in stories of apparitions, mystery and passion, written in a lyrical prose that has made this work a classic of Spanish Romanticism.
1996 edition in Alianza's El libro de bolsillo collection, with an introduction by Jorge Campos.
It is aimed at students of Spanish literature and readers interested in the fantastic tale and Romanticism.
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.
