Background
He was born in Madrid, Spain on March 24, 1809, during the French invasion. His father was a doctor in Joseph Bonaparte's army at the end of the Napoleonic wars and was forced to leave Spain with his family.
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He was born in Madrid, Spain on March 24, 1809, during the French invasion. His father was a doctor in Joseph Bonaparte's army at the end of the Napoleonic wars and was forced to leave Spain with his family.
Larra studied at Bordeaux, but after the amnesty of 1818 his family brought him back to Madrid. He continued his studies at a Jesuit school in Madrid, and at the Universities of Valencia and Valladolid.
Subsequently he began his career as a journalist, his extremely popular articles bringing him an unusually good income. His marriage of 1829 was unhappy, and an illicit love affair led to his suicide in Madrid on Feb. 13, 1837. The manner of Larra's life and death was almost a symbol of Romanticism, yet his literary production was not totally so. The half-mythical, half-historical figure of the medieval Galician poet Macias, who died as the consequence of an adulterous passion, inspired Larra's tragedy Macias (1834) and the novel El Doncel de Don Enrique el doliente (1834). Neither work has much literary value, but they are both interesting for their historical content and in so far as they represent Spanish handling of the Romantic theme of tragic love.
Larra is at his best when writing Articulos decostumbres (1832 - 1837), animated pictures of Spanish life calling to mind Goya's aquatints. The most notable are El Castellano viejo, an embryonic novel, very modern in its humor, and El Dia de difuntos de 1836, which passes from fantastic caricature to the expression of personal emotion. Larra is significant, above all, as a critic of Spanish life and culture. He is extraordinarily important in the development of the history of Spanish ideas. He represents the pessimistic, almost negative attitude characteristic of those Spaniards who exaggerate the failures and faults of their country; nevertheless, his criticism emerges from a very deep love for Spain, and he may be considered one of the most characteristic predecessors of the so-called "generation of '98. "
He wrote at great speed and the increased liberty of the press gave him an oppotunity to make his works often satirical and critical of the 19th-century Spanish society. He focused on both the politics and customs of his time. His most important works: No más mostrador, El doncel de don Enrique el Doliente, El Pobrecito Hablador.
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He was a Romantic in action and reaction, but his ideas and values, greatly influenced by the French, were partly Neoclassical.
On 13 August 1829, Larra married Josefa Wetoret Velasco. They had a son and two younger daughters, but their marriage did not go well.
