by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer · Austral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788467021479
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«Rimas y leyendas» is the volume of romantic poetry and legends by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, published by Austral in paperback (392 pages, in Spanish).
It brings together the Rimas, brief poems of an intimate tone that explore love, illusion and disillusionment, and a selection of Leyendas, narratives set in Spain in which mystery, the supernatural and the traditional intertwine.
Edition and reading guide by Francisco López Estrada and M.ª Teresa López García-Berdoy. Part of the Austral Clásica collection, Narrativa series.
A work frequently read in schools and a gateway to the poetry and narrative of Spanish 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.
