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WORLD● LOW2h ago · Oct 25, 2026, 8:01 AM

Mariano José de Larra, romantic writer: "To write in Madrid is to cry, is to seek a voice without finding it, as in an overwhelming and violent nightmare"

Clarín · western europe

In 1836, Larra diagnosed why Spain could not have a national literature. His answer was a phrase that summarizes an entire era: writing in Madrid was crying.

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