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Alfonso Reyes is one of the principal proponents of the idea (almost a campaign) to make one Juan Ruiz de Alarcón into not just being a Mexican, but the very prototype of Mexicanicity. In his fortieth year, Reyes pronounced a discourse for the “Third centenary [of the death] of Alarcón” (1639-1939). The same which proposed and composed an Alarcón as a Mexican (not a native of New Spain) avant la lettre et avant le Cri. Forty-six years after the classic article by Antonio Alatorre, “Towards the history of a problem: the Mexicanicity of Ruiz de Alarcón” (1964), Alberto Paredes examines the ideas and the stylisticargumentative resources of Reyes, lingering on the powers of Reyes’ pen; Paredes invites: “Let’s have, thus momentarily, the gesture of setting aside ideology to speak of stylistics.”