by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer · Ediciones Cátedra · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788437620244
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«Leyendas» is a collection of romantic legends by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, published by Ediciones Cátedra in paperback (416 pages, in Spanish).
Bécquer recreates popular legends and traditions in which the supernatural, mystery and love merge with prose of a strongly lyrical tone. The edition follows the texts published by the author in magazines and in «El Contemporáneo» and includes the narratives accepted by critics as unequivocal legends.
21st edition in the Letras Hispánicas collection; edited by Pascual Izquierdo.
For readers of Spanish classics and literature students who want to discover the short fiction of 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.
