“This great story-writer has constructed a literary world charged with a dense personal mythology, wonderfully invented, the starting point of which is always a village imagination raised to the highest power (...) Quintero is one of those ‘writers of before’, and it is possible that, in the end, being so far removed from the lens of the media has benefited him, because it has allowed him to accede to the ideal of certain purebred story-tellers: being pure text, being strictly a literature.” Enrique Vila-Matas