There has been continuous intercommunication between literary criticism and philosophical and scientific thought. Spain, Portugal, and their former colonies are the exception. Except in isolated cases, such as Ortega y Gasset, our critics have been influenced not by what has been thought among us, but in Europe and the United States. We have literary criticism. What we don't have is our own critical thinking. That's why I said earlier that we are an eccentric part of the West.