Cartas desde mi celda - Cartas literarias a una mujer / Letters from My Cell -Literary Letters to a Woman

Un volumen que reune las dos obras en prosa del gran poeta romantico espanol.

El presente volumen reune Cartas literarias a una mujer y Cartas desde mi celda, que Gustavo Adolfo Becquer publico en el periodico El Contemporaneo entre 1860 y 1864. Cartas literarias a una mujer, formada por cuatro epistolas, plantea un dialogo con un figura femenina imaginada sobre la importancia de la poesia. A pesar de su brevedad, es una obra fundamental del corpus de Becquer que acerca al lector a su pensamiento estetico. Por su parte, Cartas desde mi celda es una coleccion epistolar que busca la esencia del romanticismo, escrita a lo largo de los meses que Becquer y su hermano pasaron en el monasterio de Veruela en Zaragoza.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

A volume that brings together the two works of prose by the great Spanish romance poet.

This volume brings together Literary Letters to a Woman and Letters from My Cell, which Gustavo Adolfo Becquer published in the El Contemporaneo newspaper between 1860 and 1864. Literary Letters to a Woman, made up of four letters, presents a dialogue with an imagined female figure about the importance of poetry. Despite its conciseness, it is a fundamental piece in Becquer’s body of work that brings the reader closer to his aesthetic thinking. For its part, Letters from My Cell is a collection of letters that seeks the essence of romanticism, written over the months that Becquer and his brother spent in the Veruela Abbey in Zaragoza.