When cultural criticism had no mercy: "The freshness has been lost, now everything is agreed with the publishers". "The debutante Lola Beccaria makes her debut in literature with her new novel, The Debutante," writes Rafael Castillo about Time's Arrow in Asterisk Magazine in 1991.

"What I hate most about this time is the generalized anger against everything," writes Bret Easton Ellis in 1998. Miguel Alcázar has put a mask on the handful of insolent, ill-educated, brilliant, cynical, dipsomaniacs, cocaine addicts, hesitant, talented and dishonorable.