On the other hand, I saw some critics reject the use of literature as credible evidence of a political situation. Some critics denied that a literary work could serve as a mirror of a particular society. Some denied the representative intention of a literary work. Some, I believe, viewed literature and its practice as something univocal—as literature with a message—that, to me, seemed to lead toward a kind of updated costumbrismo (literary depiction of social customs). I think other critics sought at least to imagine the possibility of a literature that wasn’t, let’s say, typical literature.