Ginger, Andrew, "Modernity, Representation and Personality in Antonio Flores's Ayer, hoy y mañana (1863-64)".

"In the final version of his literary work Ayer, Hoy, y Mañana, Antonio Flores depicts the modernitation of Spain as a threat to authentic personality through an insistence on the public, representational dimension of existence in the form of marketing, discussion, and transparent accountability, which leads to paradoxes in Liberal and Democrat ideology: individual freedom is tied up with the repression of personality. Flores uses a museum model of representation to depict changing times and, in an open text, challenges the reader with the ironies he presents and his insistence on the purely representational nature of the text itself. At same time, however, what underlies this open text and concern about lost personality is an unwarranted definition of the latter as a product of the social and gender hierarchies of the past."