Name: Flor de Leyendas (in Spanish)
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Author: Alejandro Casona
ISBN: 9788476400258

Type

Physical Book

Author

Alejandro Casona

Publisher

Edaf

Topic

Poetry

Year

1985

Language

Spanish

Pages

224

Format

Paperback

ISBN

847640025X

ISBN13

9788476400258

Edited in

España

Edition No.

Synopsis "Flor de Leyendas (in Spanish)"

El gran dramaturgo Alejandro Casona (1903-1965) se acerca al relato y a la poesía para dejar en ellos la sabiduría y el encanto de su sentido literario. Flor de leyendas recoge relatos legendarios de todas las épocas, para narrarlos con su peculiar sentido poético y brindarlos a la pasión juvenil por los viejos mitos y la pasada historia: leyendas de Cristo, o sacadas de las fabulosas mitologías hindú, griega, escandinava y germana, relatos de los héroes de la Edad Media, como el Cid, Guillermo Tell o Roldán. El lirismo de estas leyendas corre parejo con la suavidad posmodernista de los poemas de La flauta del sapo, libro también recogido en este volumen.

Alejandro Casona

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Alejandro Rodríguez Álvarez, known as Alejandro Casona, or also "El perdido" (Besullo, Cangas del Narcea, Asturias, March 23, 1903-Madrid, September 17, 1965) was a Spanish playwright and teacher from the Generation of '27. His dramatic production, related to the "poetic theater" that emerged from the modernism of Rubén Darío, has certain parallels with that of Federico García Lorca, although his poetics has the bitter taste of survival. He worked as a teacher and later as an inspector, but, from 1931, he dedicated himself entirely to theater.

Before dying in Madrid in 1965, he wrote about twenty theatrical works, in addition to other minor texts. Between 1931 and 1936, Casona animates and directs the "Teatro del pueblo", a company sponsored by the authorities of the republic. Casona became known in literature in the 1930s. Exiled in America, he returned to Spain in 1962, experiencing notable public and critical success and even writing the work that would close his literary career: "El caballero de las espuelas de oro" in 1964.

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