by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer · Edicomunicacion · tapa dura · ISBN 9788476729311
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«Leyendas» is the collection of legends and tales by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, published by Edicomunicación in hardcover (251 pages, in Spanish).
It brings together the short tales that Bécquer published in the press, inspired by popular traditions and the Romantic imagination. Between mystery, the supernatural, intrigue and terror, he builds a poetic prose with descriptions of landscapes and fantastic characters, with echoes of Norse mythology.
This edition belongs to the Cultura Collection, number 31, with editing and notes by Jorge Garza Castillo and a prologue by Francesc Ll. Cardona.
For readers of nineteenth-century Spanish classics, Romanticism and stories of mystery, popular tradition and the supernatural.
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.
