Cecilia Böhl Larrea, Fernán Caballero : En cuadros vivos

Cecilia Böhl Larrea. Cecilia Böhl de Faber. Fernán Caballero. These three names refer to the same woman, a Spanish writer who achieved two seemingly impossible feats: forging a brilliant path in a literary field then almost exclusively reserved for men, and doing so while fiercely defending her privacy. These extremes make exploring her life akin to deciphering the keys to a multifaceted enigma: it requires, on the one hand, addressing a major undertaking in the renewal of 19th-century Hispanic literature; on the other, tracing the biography of the real and passionate woman, cultured and cosmopolitan, aristocratic and bourgeois, who created Fernán Caballero. This captivating biography updates much of what we previously knew about Böhl Larrea and sheds light on other aspects that remained undisclosed. Together, they contribute to understanding this woman's unique role in the literature of Spain and Europe.