by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer · Santillana Fondo Editorial S.A · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429446265
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«Rimas y leyendas» is the book of poems and legends by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, published by Santillana in paperback (151 pages, in Spanish).
The volume brings together the Rimas, short poems of apparent simplicity and great depth, and the Leyendas, prose tales about popular beliefs of Spain and Europe. It is a key work of Romanticism in the Spanish language that compiles Bécquer's lyrical vein and short narrative.
The edition belongs to the Santillana Clásicos Esenciales collection (number 6), with selection, study and notes by Abraham Madroñal Durán. Includes bibliography.
It can serve as school reading for secondary students and as a first approach to romantic literature in Spanish.
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.
