SOURCE: Walker, Nell. “Prose.” The University of Missouri Studies: The Life and Works of Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera 2, no. 2 (1 April 1927): 28-46.

In the following excerpt, Walker offers an overview of Nájera's prose works, including his news items, short stories, sermons, travel essays, and criticism.

The first volume of Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera's Prose Works contains an introduction by Luis G. Urbina, to which reference has several times been made, and the various articles in this volume are grouped under the following headings:

Cuentos Frágiles. Cuentos Color de Humo. Crónicas y Fantasías. Notas de Viaje. Humoradas Dominicales. Primera Cuaresma del Duque Job. Segunda Cuaresma del Duque Job. 

Short Stories

The first group, “Fragile Tales,” consists of a miscellaneous collection of short stories, some humorous, such as “Los amores del cometa,” “Tragedias de actualidad—El alquiler de una casa” and “La novela del tranv...