by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer · Editorial Edaf, S.L. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788441408944
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«Leyendas» is the collection of romantic tales by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, published by Editorial Edaf in paperback (272 pages, in Spanish).
The volume brings together sixteen tales of late Spanish Romanticism in which Bécquer explores medieval and mysterious settings: thwarted loves, femme fatales, supernatural apparitions, music from beyond the grave and unfulfilled promises. The poetic prose and rich adjectivation create atmospheres charged with emotion and symbolism.
This edition belongs to the EDAF Bolsillo collection. Pocket fiction (no. 5) and was published in 2001.
For readers of Spanish classics and students of Romantic 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.
