Fantasía e ironía en los cuentos de Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera

Abstract

This article examines the dual literay identity of the Mexican poet, narrator and essayist Manuel Gutierrez Nájera. He appears, on the one hand, as a Romantic epigone in Latin America and yet he also shows an intuitive approach to what became known later in his life as "fin de siécle Modernism". Produced during a time of cultural and literary transition, Gutiérrez Nájera´s work displays a sense of ambivalence -the usual shift perceived at every turning point in history.