by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer · Austral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788467033519
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«Leyendas» is a collection of tales by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, published by Austral in paperback (352 pages, in Spanish).
Volume with seventeen legends by Bécquer based on popular traditions and experiences, with fantasy and mystery settings close to Hoffmann or Poe. Grouped by geographical areas, the work includes «Maese Pérez el organista», «La rosa de pasión», «La promesa» and «El Miserere», each with a note on its dissemination and literary devices.
Edition and reading guide by Francisco López Estrada and María Teresa López García-Berdoy. Published in 2010 in the Clásica de Austral collection.
For readers of Romantic classics and students of 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.
