Memoir of a turkey by gustavo adolfo bécquer summary

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, a Romantic lyric poet who is regarded as one of the first modern Spanish poets, was born on February 17, 1836, in Seville, Spain. He was one of eight children born to Joaquina Bastida y Vargas and the painter José Domínguez Bécquer, who adopted the Bécquer surname as an acknowledgement of his family’s Flemish ancestors. The elder Bécquer died in 1841, and his wife passed away in 1847. Gustavo Bécquer first attended the School of San Antonio Abad, then, at age ten, he enrolled at the Colegio de Náutica de San Telmo [Nautical School of San Telmo]. He and his brother, Valeriano, who later became renowned as a painter and graphic artist working in the Costumbrismo style, were briefly taken in by their aunt, María Bastida. When the naval school shut down, Bécquer moved in with his godmother, Manuela Monahay, a wealthy woman with an impressive library. Bécquer became an avid reader, in addition to studying painting in an uncle’s studio. The same uncle encouraged Bécquer to resume his studies and paid for the boy’s courses in

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