hɪz mˈeɪdʒɚ lˈɪɾɚɹˌɛɹi ˈɪnfluːənsᵻz wɜː mænwˈɛl ɡuːtjˈɛɹɛz nˈædʒɚɹə, ɡʌstˈɑːvoʊ ædˈɑːlfoʊ bˈeɪkɚ ænd ˈɛdɡɚɹ ˈælən pˈoʊ, ɹuːbˈeɪn dˈɑːɹɹɪˌoʊ ænd ɐ tˈeɪst fɔːɹ mˈɑːdɚnˌɪzəm fɔːɹ ɪts “ˈɑːdᵻɾiz” wˌɪtʃ wʌz ˌɪnfluːˈɛnʃəl ɪnðɪ ˈiəɹə; bˌʌt ɪn hɪz wˈɜːk ðɛɹ ɪz ˈɔːlsoʊ ɐ sˈoʊʃəl ˈɛlɪmənt wˌɪtʃ kˌʊdɐv bˌɪn dᵻɹˈaɪvd fɹʌm ɹˈiːdɪŋ mˈæksɪm ɡˈoːɹki ænd lˈiːoʊ tˈɑːlstɔɪ.
His major literary influences were Manuel Gutierrez Nájera, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer and Edgar Allan Poe, Rubén Darío and a taste for modernism for its “oddities” which was influential in the era; but in his work there is also a social element which could have been derived from reading Maxim Gorki and Leo Tolstoy.