by Fernán Caballero · Ramón Sopena · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788430305841
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«La gaviota» is the costumbrista novel by Fernán Caballero, published by Ramón Sopena in paperback (301 pages, in Spanish).
It tells the story of Marisalada, a young woman with a prodigious voice nicknamed La Gaviota. The young woman's rise to success and subsequent fall contrast traditional rural Spain with urban sophistication, offering a portrait of nineteenth-century customs and landscapes and a moralizing tone.
Fernán Caballero is the pseudonym of Cecilia Böhl de Faber. This edition is from 1975 and belongs to the Biblioteca Sopena Novela collection.
For readers interested in costumbrismo, the nineteenth-century Spanish novel, and its transition towards 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.
