Name: Letters from my cell
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Author: Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
ISBN: 9781546719786

Type

Physical Book

Author

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x0.3 cm

Weight

0.08 kg.

ISBN13

9781546719786

Synopsis "Letters from my cell"

The book is composed by a set of nine cards to Bécquer wrote during his stay in the monastery of Veruela, where is refuge for replace is of the tuberculosis that you affected, and that is published individually in the newspaper Madrid the contemporary along the 1864. It is a masterpiece of 19TH century Spanish journalism. Despite this dramatic illness, incurable at that time, the tone of these writings overflowing vitality. The descriptions of the nature and of the landscape are excellent. The theme of the letters is very varied and they are very entertaining and interesting, while 150 years have passed since they were written.

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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