by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer · tapa dura · ISBN 9788475251646
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«Leyendas» is the collection of romantic legends by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, published by Anaya in hardback (317 pages, in Spanish).
In these narratives, Bécquer recreates the supernatural universe of Romanticism: apparitions, pacts and impossible loves set in medieval landscapes and mysterious cities. The work combines the Gothic with oral tradition and Spanish folklore, and shows the author's mastery in building unsettling atmospheres and characters marked by destiny.
The Tus Libros collection by Anaya includes this work as number 40; the edition recovers the original versions that appeared in El Contemporáneo and other magazines.
Recommended for readers of Spanish classics, fantastic tales and 19th-century horror.
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.
