by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer · Jorge A. Mestas. Ediciones Escolares · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788495311146
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«Leyendas» is the collection of romantic legends by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer published by Jorge A. Mestas in paperback, 155 pages, in Spanish.
A compilation of romantic tales in which Bécquer recreates oral traditions and medieval settings with supernatural elements: Templars, mysterious women, apparitions and divine punishments. Includes «El monte de las ánimas», «Los ojos verdes» and «Maese Pérez el organista», in prose that anticipates the musicality of modernism.
Edition published in 2000 with a prologue by Jorge Campos. It brings together twenty-two narratives in chronological order of publication, from «El caudillo de las manos rojas» to «La mujer de piedra».
For readers of classic Spanish literature and fans of Romanticism and the supernatural tale.
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.
