POPRADO
PEATONAL, TURÍSTICO Y CULTURAL
PI.ORIENTE

[Portrait of Mariano José de Larra]

Mariano José de Larra
(Madrid, 1809-1837)

Aunque no compartió los postulados literarios del Romanticismo español, su vida y su muerte lo acercan al ideal romántico. Su padre médico afrancesado, hubo de emigrar con su familia a Francia. Gracias a la amnistía concedida por Fernando VI, la familla regresó a España, donde Larra estudió Medicina y Derecho. Los artículos que publicó en "El duende Satírico del Día", con el seudónimo "El Duende” le reportaron pronta fama como periodista. Agudo observador de la realidad social, cultural y politica, en su revista satírico “El Pobrecito Hablador”, escribió, con el seudónimo de Juan Pérez de Munguía muchos de sus mejores articulos: Vuelva usted mañana, El castellano viejo y El casarse pronto y mal entre otros. En 1833, bajo el seudónimo de "Figaro" publicó en la "Revista Española” y "El Observador" donde además de sus cuadros de costumbres, escribió crítica literaria y política. Su mordacidad crítica explica la vigencia de su obra.

[Signature of Mariano José de Larra]

MINISTERIO DE FOMENTO
Comunidad de Madrid

One of the signs placed in Madrid as part of the "Prado Museum-Palacio de Oriente Tourist and Cultural Pedestrian Axis", a collaboration between the City of Madrid and the Ministry of Public Works. The project won the 2003 Europa Nostra Prize for Urban Planning for Heritage Conservation.

The sign commemorates the writer and journalist Mariano José de Larra (1809-1837), who wrote satirically about Spanish society at the time and took his own life at a young age.

The location of the sign was photographed on the same day Click for a larger image

Translation of the text on the sign:
PEDESTRIAN, TOURIST, AND CULTURAL STREET
PI.ORIENTE

POPRARADO
PEDESTRIAN, TOURIST, AND CULTURAL
PI.ORIENTE

[Portrait of Mariano José de Larra]

Mariano José de Larra
(Madrid, 1809-1837)

Although he did not share the literary principles of Spanish Romanticism, his life and death brought him close to the Romantic ideal. His father, a pro-French physician, had to emigrate with his family to France. Thanks to the amnesty granted by Ferdinand VI, the family returned to Spain, where Larra studied Medicine and Law. The articles he published in El Duende Satírico del Día, under the pseudonym "El Duende" (The Goblin), quickly earned him fame as a journalist. A keen observer of social, cultural, and political reality, in his satirical magazine El Pobrecito Hablador ("The Poor Little Talker"), he wrote many of his best articles under the pseudonym Juan Pérez de Munguía: Vuelva usted mañana ("Come Back Tomorrow"), El castellano viejo ("The Old Castilian"), and El casarse pronto y mal ("On Marrying Early and Poorly"), among others.

In 1833, under the pseudonym "Fígaro," he published in La Revista Española and El Observador, where, in addition to his sketches of local customs, he also wrote literary and political criticism. The biting nature of his critique explains the continued relevance of his work.


[Signature of Mariano José de Larra]

MINISTRY OF PUBLIC WORKS
Community of Madrid