What is most important is that the book, with its broad scope, casts a wide net, covering every critical and theoretical concern. For me personally, the greatest value of the volume is its demonstration that the Spanish intellectual and academic world is not a spectator to theory and criticism, that with the work of the essayists assembled here Spain is an international player of the first rank. I recommend highly to anyone interested in literary and critical theory, and anyone who thinks that Spanish criticism is a follower and not a leader. The book should be required reading for all students of literary and theoretical criticism.