by Fernán Caballero · tapa dura · ISBN 9788479151539
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«La gaviota» is Fernán Caballero's novel of Spanish customs, published by Sarpe in hardback (262 pages, in Spanish).
The story follows Marisalada, a young woman from an Andalusian village nicknamed «La Gaviota» for her voice, and her career as a singer. The novel interweaves the narrative with coplas, tales, proverbs and traditions of Spanish folklore, and contrasts rural life with urban life through themes such as love, ambition and morality.
It belongs to the Universo Literario collection. The work was originally published in 1849 and this edition includes an introduction by Carmen Bravo-Villasante.
For readers of classics interested in nineteenth-century Spanish literature and costumbrismo.
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.
