Key Points

• Spanish romantic writer

• Pessimistic, passionate and impetuous temperament that highly influenced his literary career

• Best prose writer of the entire romantic period.

• At age 19 started a satiric newspaper

• Journalist about customs of his time

• Wrote satirical and critical works

• Defended Liberalism against the Carlist rebellion

Relevant Works

• No más mostrador

• Macías

• El doncel do don Enrique el Doliente

• Colección de artículos dramáticos, literarios, políticos y de costumbres (1835)