by Fernán Caballero · ORBIS: GRANDES ESCRITORAS · tapa dura · ISBN 9788440205728
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«La gaviota» is the novel by Fernán Caballero published by Orbis in hardback (281 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows Marisalada, nicknamed the Seagull, a young woman from a village near Cádiz whose voice takes her from rural life to opera. The story of Marisalada and her marriage to the German surgeon Stein serves to contrast the traditional Andalusian world with urban high society, with coplas, proverbs and popular customs as a backdrop.
Fernán Caballero is the pseudonym of Cecilia Böhl de Faber. The novel was originally published in 1849; this 1988 edition is number 21 in the Grandes Escritoras collection.
For people interested in nineteenth-century Spanish narrative and portrayals of Andalusian customs.
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.
