Name: Leyendas (in Spanish)
SKU: 60290512
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Author: Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
ISBN: 9781981254729

Type

Physical Book

Author

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

Publisher

Createspace

Language

Spanish

Pages

368

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x1.9 cm

Weight

0.49 kg.

ISBN13

9781981254729

Synopsis "Leyendas (in Spanish)"

Ella era hermosa, hermosa con esa hermosura que inspira el vértigo, hermosa con esa hermosura que no se parece en nada a la que soñamos en los ángeles y que, sin embargo, es sobrenatural; hermosura diabólica, que tal vez presta el demonio a algunos seres para hacerlos sus instrumentos en la tierra. El la amaba; la amaba con ese amor que no conoce freno ni límite; la amaba con ese amor en que se busca un goce y sólo se encuentran martirios, amor que se asemeja a la felicidad y que, no obstante, diríase que lo infunde el Cielo para la expiación de una culpa. Ella era caprichosa, caprichosa y extravagante, como todas las mujeres del mundo; él, supersticioso, supersticioso y valiente, como todos los hombres de su época. Ella se llamaba María Antúnez; él, Pedro Alonso de Orellana. Los dos eran toledanos, y los dos vivían en la misma ciudad que los vio nacer. La tradición que refiere esta maravillosa historia acaecida hace muchos años, no dice nada más acerca de los personajes que fueron sus héroes.

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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