Gustavo Adolfo Becquer: Legends-A Selection by Antonio Varela

Gustavo Adolfo Becquer: Legends-A Selectionby Antonio VarelaGustavo Adolfo Bécquer is one of the most widely read writers in the Spanish language. His poetry made him the Spanish-speaking world's favourite writer on love; it is his prose that secured his fame as a master of the fantastic and of uncontrolled, destructive passion. He is Spain's answer to E.T.A. Hoffmann or Edgar Allan Poe.This selection of his Legends gathers fourteen tales — Green Eyes, The Moonbeam, Ghost Mountain, The Gold Bracelet, The Kiss, The Miserere, Master Pérez the Organist, The White Doe, The Gnome, The Promise, The Christ of the Skull, The Cave of the Moorish Woman, The Devil's Cross and Believe in God — together with an introduction and a brief biography.Translator Antonio Varela worked with readability as his constant watchword: Bécquer's vocabulary is vast and his sentences can strain the limits of grammar, but the liveliness is fundamental to the pleasure, and it survives here intact.Imaginative, atmospheric, and deeply sympathetic to its characters however badly they behave.eBook (EPUB) · ISBN 9781622492039