by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Gloria Hervás · Castalia Ediciones · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497400145
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«Leyendas» is the book of romantic legends by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, edited by Gloria Hervás, published by Castalia Ediciones in paperback.
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer recreates tales from Spanish popular tradition: knights, pages and clergymen become involved in nocturnal challenges, romances and supernatural events in Gothic settings of cathedrals, castles and ruins. The poetic prose combines emotion, mystery and beauty. It includes «El monte de las ánimas», «Los ojos verdes» and «Maese Pérez el organista».
Volume 17 of the Castalia Prima collection. First edition published in March 2002; 160 pages. Text in Spanish.
Edition aimed at young readers and literature students; includes introduction, suggested activities and supporting bibliography.
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.
