Looking for an easy transposition, washington irving would be the Becker made in the USA. Only that Becquer did not get to turn 40 while Irving became a veteran writer reaching 76 chestnuts.
But the inspiration between romantic and gothic of both (with a point of darkness that also reminds of an also younger Poe to which Irving also survived), places them at times in similar fantastic, dark and fascinating settings.
The fact that Irving arrived in Spain in 1826, a decade before Becquer came into the world, awakens a strange sense of legacy finally finished off by Becquer himself.
Because the romantic point that arises from that distortion towards the dark and the fantastic in which we can sense in Becquer some kind of longing for the lost Spanish empire, has already been drawn by an Irving steeped in the unexplored narrative legacy that all loss offers.
But of course, in a longer life, as a diplomat and above all a traveler as well as a writer, Washington Irving offers us more readings, short stories, travel books, historical documentaries and much more.
Washington Irving's Top 3 Recommended Books
Rip van winkle
At the time, when I was about to write my mystery novel «El sueño del santo»I was inquiring about the legend of Saint Virila, the saint who fell asleep on a walk when he was abbot of the Leyre monastery and woke up 300 years later.
The issue has its that. Because the legend was replicated in many places when the concept of viral in networks did not exist. For whatever the matter was, it was liked and was told by troubadours on duty. Or maybe we really had our own particular time travelers years ago.
Washington Irving also knew about these stories and introduced us to Rip Van Winkle, adjusting it to his particular scenography and his plot variation ...
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Who does not remember the Tim Burton movie? The truth is that this neo-romantic director, in his exclusive dedication to gothic setting and arguments, is a specialist in bringing us the fantastic and ending up turning it into something more transcendent.
The headless man who terrorized the small village was born in the imagination of an Irving who rounded off his bibliography of dark tales with many more ghostly, haunting, and powerful-paced tales.
Tales of the Alhambra
In its double aspect of travel book, on the one hand, and representation of legends and stories on the other, this volume is a charming return to the historical moment of Irving's arrival in Spain and the reflection of the imaginary that he encountered. From Andalusia dotted with its legendary brilliant for the whole world.
Narrated in the first person by the author himself, he tells us how he begins a journey through Andalusia that will take him to Granada. There he settles down and meets various characters who will tell him stories and legends about the Alhambra and its Hispanic-Muslim past.
The book contains articles with descriptions and historical notes of the Alhambra and the following stories:
The one-armed Governor and the soldier
The Governor and the Clerk
The adventure of the bricklayer
Legend of the rose of the Alhambra
Legend of the three beautiful princesses
Legend of the Arab astrologer
Legend of the Grand Master of Alcántara
Legend of the legacy of the Moor
Legend of Prince Ahmed al Kamel or the Pilgrim of love
Legend of the enchanted soldier
