by Fernán Caballero · Signo Editores · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788484473824
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«La gaviota» is the costumbrista novel by Fernán Caballero, published by Signo Editores in paperback (240 pages, in Spanish).
The work follows Marisalada, a young singer known as La Gaviota, who triumphs on the stages of Madrid. Her love for a bullfighter and her return to her native village mark a turn in her fate, while the novel portrays social classes, customs, and ambition in early 19th-century Spain.
Third volume in the Great Women Writers collection. The work was originally published in 1849.
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.
