by Fernán Caballero · Círculo de amigos de la historia · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788422504559
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«La gaviota» is the novel by Fernán Caballero, published in 1974 by Círculo de Amigos de la Historia in paperback (301 pages, in Spanish).
The novel is divided into two parts that contrast two worlds: that of a village near Cádiz and that of high society in Seville and Madrid. The protagonist, nicknamed the Seagull, daughter of a widowed fisherman, becomes an opera singer. The work is full of folk tales, songs, dances and traditions.
Volume 46 of the Clásicos Españoles collection. Fernán Caballero is the pseudonym of Cecilia Böhl de Faber; the novel was originally published in 1849.
For readers interested in the nineteenth-century Spanish novel and in Fernán Caballero's costumbrismo.
Fernán Caballero was the pseudonym of Spanish novelist Cecilia Francisca Josefa Böhl de Faber y Ruiz de Larrea. She was the daughter of German writer Johann Nikolaus Böhl von Faber and Spanish writer Frasquita Larrea. Her pen name was taken from the name of a village in the province of Ciudad Real.
