Author: Carmen Boullosa
- Fiction
- Fondo de Cultura Economica USA
- ISBN:  9789681674625
- Release Date: 01-01-1970
-Reviewed by: Juan Pablo Debesis

A reformulation in a contemporary key of Cervantes' Gitanilla from the Exemplary Novels and of the legendary Battle of Lepanto, in which the heroine is a combatant aboard the galleon La Real. María the Dancer observes the passage of the century in this intensely literary work, whose pages follow one another in such quick succession that the reader is literally left breathless. This monumental and fortunate novel confirms the Mexican writer as a major novelist of her generation in an international context.