The Kiss, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
It was the time when Napoleon’s French army had taken Toledo (1808-1812) and so many soldiers camped in the square that they had to take all kinds of buildings, regardless of their class, use or …
The Three Dates (Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer)
” The Three Dates” is not properly a legend. Even so, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer defined in this story published in 1862 the magic that encloses most of the streets of the city, and in which …
Brief Biography of Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
Originally from Seville, Spain, Bécquer was born on February 17, 1836. His father was a famous Sevillian painter who left Adolfo orphaned at the age of five… Gustav Adolf Becquer (1836-1870) Portrait of Gustavo Adolfo …
La Ajorca de Oro, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
She was beautiful, beautiful with that beauty that inspires vertigo, beautiful with that beauty that is nothing like the one we dream of in angels and yet is supernatural; diabolical beauty, which perhaps the devil …
The Christ of the Skull, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
The king of Castile marched to the Moorish war, and to fight with the enemies of religion had appealed in war to all the most flowery of the nobility of their kingdoms. The king of …
The Passion Rose, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
One summer afternoon, in a garden in Toledo, I was told this singular story by a very good and very pretty girl. As she explained to me the mystery of her special form, she kissed …