by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer · Editorial Casals · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788421824733
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Rimas y Leyendas» is the poetry and short stories work by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, published by Editorial Casals in paperback (254 pages, in Spanish).
The Rimas portray the evolution of love, from initial illusion to disillusionment and the pain of absence; the Leyendas, wrapped in a mysterious atmosphere, narrate the pursuit of unattainable ideals whose chase leads to misfortune. In Bécquer, prose and poetry share the same poetic tone.
2001 edition within the Novelas y Cuentos collection. Biblioteca de Aula (volume 16).
Suitable for readers aged 16 and over; fits as school reading and an introduction to Spanish poetry.
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.
