Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera

Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera (Spanish: [maˈnwel ɣuˈtjeres ˈnaxeɾa];[a] December 22, 1859 – February 3, 1895) was a Mexican writer and political figure.

[3] As a writer, Gutiérrez Nájera managed to bridge the gap between romanticism and the contemporary movements of modernismo and Symbolism in North America.

[5] Gutiérrez Nájera likely resorted to using such a wide variety of pen names in the hopes that the people of Mexico City would not tire of reading so many pieces by the same author.

[1] His verse was influenced heavily by French writer Paul Verlaine, as well as by Alfred de Musset, Théophile Gautier, and Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, among others.

[3] Due to the brevity of his career, as well as his tendency to use a wide range of pseudonyms, most of Gutiérrez Nájera's works was not organized into collections until after his death.