by Fernán Caballero · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423903641
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«La Gaviota» is the realist novel by Fernán Caballero, published by Espasa Calpe in paperback, with 230 pages, in Spanish.
Marisalada, nicknamed the Gaviota, is a young woman from an Andalusian village with an exceptional voice. Her talent takes her from the rural surroundings of Cádiz to high society in Seville and Madrid. At her side is Stein, a German surgeon. The novel portrays customs, coplas and popular traditions and is considered an early work of Spanish realism.
Fernán Caballero is the pseudonym of Cecilia Böhl de Faber. This 1986 edition belongs to the Austral Collection, number 364, and is the eleventh. The work was originally published in 1849.
For readers of classic nineteenth-century Spanish fiction, especially those who want to discover the beginnings of literary realism.
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.
