Gustavo Adolfo Becquer. Beyond their rhymes are their legends

Portrait of Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer by his brother Valeriano. From 1862.

Gustavo Adolfo Becquer was born on a day like today from 1836 en Sevilla. And in December this year also commemorates the 150th anniversary of his death. The quintessential Spanish romantic poet (with permission perhaps from Don José de Espronceda) continues to enjoy good literary health and of course it was far beyond the rimas with their swallows. His prose, which he also cultivated in the ,, the gender epistolary and articulism, has the same strength. I give them a spin some of his famous legends and letters.

Legends of Bécquer

Conclusion 22 stories written in poetic prose that almost everyone tells tragic or horror stories, accompanied by a mysterious and supernatural environment. Its main themes are love, described as a fatal passion that leads to a tragic end, the search for the unattainable, and the beyond, with the appearance of diabolical forces and ghosts. Some are:

The green eyes

History Hunter's obsession Fernando that, hunting one day with Íñigo, a huntsman at his service, enters a place chasing a wounded deer. That place is la Alamo Fountains and, as they say, there lives a evil spirit. But Fernando will go again and again after having seen some beautiful green eyes of a woman in that wonderful place and cannot forget them. The huntsman warns him of the danger of that woman, who is actually a demon that wants to take over your soul. But he will not be able to stop Fernando who, one day, meets the mysterious woman and declares his love for her. She in the end ends up dragging him into that fountain.

Master Pérez the organist

It takes place in Seville in the XNUMXth century. It tells the story of a blind organist, of great sensitivity, that dies and no one else afterwards manages to make the organ sound the same from the church of Santa Inés. But one Christmas Eve, and without any explanation, the same music is heard on the organ again played by the late Maese Pérez.

The gold anklet

This story happens in the cathedral of Toledo and protagonist, pushed by his wife, of diabolical beauty, wants to steal a gold bracelet of the Virgin of the Sagrario. However, when trying to flee, it feels overwhelmed by what happens to the images From the temple. The magical and supernatural component stands out again and also the figure of women as a determining force that leads to a fatal outcome.

The mount of the souls

Is possibly the best known and takes place in a mountain near Soria. Based on a ancient tradition about the Templars that tells how they had fought with the noblemen of the city and the skeletons of the dead in that battle the Night of the deads. It's a woman again Beatriz, very beautiful and perverse, the one that convinces her cousin so I can go find one band who has lost in that mountain precisely on that night.

Letters

Literary letters to a woman

Conclusion 4 letters that were published in a way anonymous in a newspaper. And they go addressed to a woman with whom Bécquer maintains a conversation about they ideas about poetry. He tells him that, for him, that poetry found in images, lights, sounds, scents and the mystery, in the feeling and in the woman.

Letters from my cell

And these are 9 letters that Bécquer wrote for a journal from the Veruela monastery, on the slopes of Moncayo, also in the province of Soria. There he was retired some time to heal from your tuberculosis. And with a simple, precise and detailed style, talk about brujas, de los artistic treasures that he liked so much, of the monastery where he was staying, of his rides, its pessimism and melancholy, who accompanied him so much in his life.


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