by Fernán Caballero · Orbis · tapa dura · ISBN 9788475305455
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«La gaviota» is the costumbrista novel by Fernán Caballero, published by Orbis in hardback (285 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows Marisalada, a young singer known as the Gaviota, who triumphs on the stages of Madrid and then returns to her Andalusian village. Through her story and that of other characters, Fernán Caballero portrays the customs, social classes and conflicts of early 19th-century Spain, with a critical eye towards certain liberal and romantic ideals.
This 1985 edition is part of the Historia de la Literatura Española collection, volume 94. The novel was originally published in 1849.
Recommended for readers interested in 19th-century Spanish literature and the origins of the realist novel in Spain.
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.
