by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer · Ediciones Cátedra · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788437621548
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«Nueve leyendas» is the collection of romantic legends by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, published by Ediciones Cátedra in paperback (160 pages, in Spanish).
Bécquer displays his romantic taste for the mysterious and the supernatural: tragic passions, apparitions and unsettling events where the real and the fantastic worlds coexist. Written in poetic prose and rooted in folklore, tales such as «El Monte de las Ánimas», «Los ojos verdes» and «El rayo de luna» exemplify Bécquer's personal style.
Fourth volume of the Cátedra base collection; edition by Mª. Dolores Pedrós Escriche. Published in 2004, it brings together nine of Bécquer's sixteen legends and includes an introduction and activities.
Recommended for literature students and for those approaching Bécquer for the first time, with a didactic approach designed for the classroom.
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.
