by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer · Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432038747
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«Rimas, Leyendas y Cartas desde mi celda» is the volume of poetry, fantastic tales and epistolary prose by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, published by Planeta in paperback (256 pages, in Spanish).
Selected work by Bécquer bringing together three of his essential titles. The Rimas, brief lyrical compositions, explore love, disillusionment and poetic creation; the Leyendas narrate stories based on the supernatural, the mysterious and popular tradition, and Cartas desde mi celda collects the reflections the author wrote from the monastery of Veruela. The whole shows his intimate, subjective world with great communicative power.
Volume in the Planeta Clásicos universales collection, with edition, introduction and notes by María del Pilar Palomo. Sources differ between 220 and 256 pages; Planeta and the current record indicate 256 in paperback.
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.
