Name: Desde mi celda (in Spanish)
SKU: 60644380
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Author: Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
ISBN: 9781986820073

Type

Physical Book

Author

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

Publisher

Createspace

Language

Spanish

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x0.5 cm

Weight

0.13 kg.

ISBN13

9781986820073

Synopsis "Desde mi celda (in Spanish)"

Queridos amigos: Heme aquí transportado de la noche a la mañana a mi escondido valle de Veruela; heme aquí instalado de nuevo en el oscuro rincón del cual salí por un momento para tener el gusto de estrecharos la mano una vez más, fumar un cigarro juntos, charlar un poco y recordar las agradables, aunque inquietas, horas de mi antigua vida. Cuando se deja una ciudad por otra, particularmente hoy, que todos los grandes centros de población se parecen, apenas se percibe el aislamiento en que nos encontramos, antojándosenos, al ver la identidad de los edificios, los trajes y las costumbres, que al volver la primera esquina vamos a hallar la casa a que concurríamos, las personas que estimábamos, las gentes a quienes teníamos costumbre de ver y hablar de continuo. En el fondo de este valle, cuya melancólica belleza impresiona profundamente, cuyo eterno silencio agrada y sobrecoge a la vez, diríase, por el contrario, que los montes que lo cierran como un valladar inaccesible, nos separan por completo del mundo. Tan notable es el contraste de cuanto se ofrece a nuestros ojos; tan vagos y perdidos quedan al confundirse entre la multitud de nuevas ideas y sensaciones los recuerdos de las cosas más recientes!

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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