by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Esther Ortas Durand · Castalia Ediciones · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497401685
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«Leyendas» is the selection of romantic legends by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, edited by Esther Ortas Durand, in paperback (Castalia, 381 pages).
Short tales set in the Middle Ages in which Bécquer weaves the fantastic with lyrical prose: specters, knights, ladies and impossible loves appear among ruins and forests. It includes 'La cruz del diablo', 'La ajorca de oro' and 'El Monte de las Ánimas', and addresses love, death and the mysterious from the imaginary of Spanish Romanticism.
Didactic edition in the Castalia Didáctica collection: introduction, chronological tables, bibliography, complete texts, notes and study guidelines.
For literature students and readers interested in Romanticism and Spanish classics.
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.
