by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer · Oxford University Press España, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788467395761
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«Rimas y leyendas» is a classic of poetry and legends by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, published by Oxford University Press España in paperback.
The book brings together the Rimas, short poems, and the Leyendas, tales of a traditional and legendary nature. Bécquer did not follow the rhetorical fashions of his time or the dominant narrative realism, but his own voice as a creator; that coherence made his work one of the great references of Spanish literature.
It belongs to the El Árbol de los Clásicos collection, with adaptation by Vicente Muñoz Puelles and appendices by Ana Alonso and Javier Pelegrín; 260 pages.
Edition recommended for ages 14 and up, designed for school reading and didactic support.
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.
