by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer · Editorial Optima · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788489693210
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«Rimas y leyendas» is the poetic and narrative work of Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, published by Editorial Optima in paperback (352 pages, in Spanish).
The book brings together the Rimas, poems, and the Leyendas, tales of a fantastic and mysterious nature, along with Cartas desde mi celda, a series of prose texts. Thus Bécquer's poetry and narrative coexist with stories that oscillate between the real and the supernatural.
1999 edition, in Spanish, which adds «Cartas desde mi celda» to the usual corpus of «Rimas» and «Leyendas».
For readers of poetry and classic Spanish tales, especially those seeking 19th-century Spanish 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.
