Mariano JosÃ de Larra ( 24 March 1809 - 13 February 1837 ) was a Spanish romanticist writer noted for satire and perhaps the best prose writer of 19th-century Spain . Mariano JosÃ de Larra ( 24 March 1809 â `` 13 February 1837 ) was a Spanish romantic writer best known for his numerous essays , as well as his infamous suicide .