by Fernán Caballero · Austral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423919727
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La Gaviota is a classic novel of Spanish costumbrista literature, written by Fernán Caballero (Cecilia Böhl de Faber). The story narrates the rise and fall of a young woman with a beautiful voice, Gaviota, who achieves success in Madrid and Seville, but her life takes a tragic turn when she falls in love with a bullfighter who dies in the arena. The novel offers a detailed description of 19th-century Spanish society, focusing on Andalusian customs and types, and defending rural life.
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.
