by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer · Ediciones Cátedra · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788437619965
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In 'From My Cell', Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer transports us to the Veruela monastery, where a prolonged stay resulted in a rich artistic and literary production. Through his letters, Bécquer testifies to the crucial role of this Cistercian environment in his personal maturity. This book is a double journey, physical and symbolic, that takes the author from Madrid to Veruela, where he experiences the proximity of death and recovers his health, only to return to the Court. A journey from dreams of triumph to the desire for annihilation, culminating in a moderate acceptance of the limitations of existence.
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.
