Name: Leyendas (in Spanish)
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Author: Gustavo Adolfo Becquer
ISBN: 9788441408944

Type

Physical Book

Author

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

Publisher

Edaf

Year

2001

Language

Spanish

Pages

272

Format

Paperback

ISBN

8441408947

ISBN13

9788441408944

Edited in

España

Synopsis "Leyendas (in Spanish)"

Las leyendas becquerianas se han convertido en el modelo de relato romántico, producto de la lírica mezcla de historicismo, tradición popular, folclor, intervención de lo sobrenatural cristiano y referencia a un lugar misterioso.Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer publicó dieciséis leyendas entre 1854 (El caudillo de las manos rojas) y 1864 (Rosa de pasión), para las que inventa una prosa poética de rica adjetivación en busca de una atmósfera cargada de emociones y sensaciones sugestivas.El conjunto, espléndida evocación de los ambietes medievales, se organiza en torno a unos temas que han devenido con tópicos del tardío Romanticismo español: la mujer fatal que domina a su enamorado (La ajorca de oro, El monte de las ánimas); la búsqueda obsesiva de un ensueño maléfico (Los ojos verdes) o simplemente inalcanzable (El rayo de luna); el amor trágicamente roto (La rosa de pasión): la música de ultratumba (Maese Pérez el organista, El miserere); o las promesas de amor incumplidas (La cruz del diablo, La promesa).'

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

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Spanish poet born in Seville on February 17, 1836, and died in Madrid on December 22, 1870, the real name of Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer was Gustavo Adolfo Domínguez Bastida

Bécquer is considered one of the standards of Romanticism in Spain. After starting in painting, in which he did not particularly excel, he moved to Madrid to dedicate himself to literature. He did not achieve great success and survived by co-writing comedies and zarzuelas under the pseudonym Gustavo García

As tuberculosis and depression began to manifest in him, he embarked on the project of writing the History of the Temples of Spain, a work of which only a first volume would see the light. After falling in love with Julia Espín, a girl from the upper-class Madrid society who scorned him, he began to write his Rhymes

Bécquer then started working as an editor at El Contemporáneo and as a censor of novels. In 1870 he and his brother Valeriano, his great support throughout his life, were hired to work at La Ilustración de Madrid; however, Valeriano died in September of that year, which ended the little health of the author, who died at the end of December during a solar eclipse. His friends published, at the express wish of the author, his works, in order to financially help the three children of the Sevillian poet

Among his works, it is worth highlighting his Rhymes and also his Legends, fundamental within the literature of the 19th century Spain.

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