by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer · Bruguera. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788402033468
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«Rimas y leyendas» is the volume of poetry and legends by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, published by Bruguera in hardcover in 1973 (420 pages, in Spanish).
This volume brings together the Rimas, a series of short poems in which Bécquer reflects on love, disillusionment and the very act of creating, and the Leyendas, tales of mystery and Gothic settings inspired by folklore and popular traditions. The work shows the author's dual facet within Spanish Romanticism and combines a melancholic atmosphere with the supernatural.
The Bruguera edition belongs to the Obras Inmortales collection (volume 3) and includes a preliminary study and bibliography by Ángeles Cardona and Juan Alcina.
For readers of classic Spanish literature and for those who seek in Romanticism a taste for the mysterious 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.
