La Gaviota - Caballero, Fernan
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La gaviota, the great Fernan Caballero Spanish novel, in a US printed edition Fernán Caballero is one of the great XIX Century Spanish novelist, considered the first to introduce the realist novel in Spain. That alone would have granted the author a place among Spanish writers, but the fact that Caballero is a pseudonim behind which stands a woman, transforms the author into a novelistic character in her own right. Cecilia Böhl de Faber's life is as fascinating as her characters. Born in Switzerland, educated in France, Cecilia Böhl became a highly successful woman writer in Spain, even…mehr

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La gaviota, the great Fernan Caballero Spanish novel, in a US printed edition Fernán Caballero is one of the great XIX Century Spanish novelist, considered the first to introduce the realist novel in Spain. That alone would have granted the author a place among Spanish writers, but the fact that Caballero is a pseudonim behind which stands a woman, transforms the author into a novelistic character in her own right. Cecilia Böhl de Faber's life is as fascinating as her characters. Born in Switzerland, educated in France, Cecilia Böhl became a highly successful woman writer in Spain, even regarded as the Spanish answer to Walter Scott, not a minor feat in the Spanish society of that time. La gaviota is her first novel. Originally written in French it was translated into Spanish with the author's own supervision, and immediately caught the demanding Spanish literary circles attention. Even though this is the type of books reserved to Spanish studies readings, in this edition we took care to include just the necessary annotations as to help the modern reader sail through the novel without any obstrusive lengthy interruptions. If you enjoy reading in Spanish, and admire brilliant prose, this is a book to read.
Autorenporträt
Fernan Caballero (24 December 1796 - 7 April 1877) was the pen name of Spanish novelist Cecilia Francisca Josefa Bohl de Faber y Ruiz de Larrea. She was the daughter of German author Johann Nikolaus Bohl von Faber and Spanish writer Frasquita Larrea. Her pen name is derived from a town in the province of Ciudad Real. She had her primary education in Hamburg, traveled to Spain in 1815, and married Antonio Planells y Bardaxi, an infantry captain with a poor reputation, in 1816. Planells was killed in action the next year, and the young widow married Francisco Ruiz del Arco, Marques de Arco Hermoso, a Spanish household regiment officer, in 1822. When Arco Hermoso died in 1835, the marquesa was in dire financial straits, and in less than two years she married Antonio Arrom de Ayala, a man much younger than her. Arrom was appointed consul in Australia, engaged in business ventures, and acquired money; nonetheless, bad speculations forced him to commit suicide in 1859. Ten years ago, Fernan Caballero became well-known in Spain as the author of La Gaviota. The author had previously published an anonymous romance in German, Sole (1840), while the initial manuscript of La Gaviota was written in French.