by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer · Espasa · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467031379
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«Rimas y leyendas» is the poetry and legends work by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, published by Espasa in hardcover (228 pages, in Spanish).
The volume brings together the Rimas, brief poetic compositions, and the Leyendas, prose tales of Spanish Romanticism; the lyrical voice and the narrative share motifs and atmospheres, with a sober style of great expressive richness.
Rimas y leyendas belongs to the Austral Ediciones Especiales collection, in a commemorative edition of the 150th anniversary of the first Rima, «Imitación de Byron».
A work for approaching Spanish Romanticism and rediscovering one of its most read and admired authors.
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.
