Larra, Mariano José De
Related Category: Spanish and Portuguese Literature: Biographies
(märyä´nō hōsā´
thā lä´rä), 1809–37, Spanish satirist, b. Madrid. Using several pseudonyms, Larra wrote a series of satirical articles on Spanish politics and customs. These were published in his own periodical,
Pobrecito hablador (1832–33). His best-known works are the novel
El doncel de don Enrique el doliente [the page of Don Enrique the sorrowful] (1834), the drama
Macías (1834), and
No más mostrador [good-bye to the shop counter] (1831), an adaptation of a play by Scribe. Unhappy in love and an incurable melancholic, Larra committed suicide.
