 Freed from his diplomatic work, he traveled to France, Belgium, and Holland, where he came into contact with the works of Flaubert, Balzac, and Ivan Turgenev, the lattermost impressing him profoundly.Upon his return to Chile, in 1892, he disseminated the works of the Russian novelist throughout literary circles.In 1894, Gana published another short story, this time in publication El año Literario, that was initially titled "Por un perro," but later came to be called "Un carácter."