by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer · Catedra · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788437605982
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«Leyendas» is the story collection by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, published by Cátedra in paperback (373 pages, in Spanish).
Bécquer brings together here a series of Romantic tales in which the real and the supernatural intertwine: love, death, nature and mystery create atmospheres of unreality and magic. Despite the greater fame of his Rimas, these legends marked a milestone of narrative modernity through their fusion of popular tradition and literary elaboration.
Edition by Pascual Izquierdo, number 244 in the Letras Hispánicas collection. The Cátedra edition was published in 1989; the legends originally appeared in 1864.
For readers of Spanish literature classics and lovers of short fiction with fantastic and romantic atmospheres.
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.
