It has been some time since anyone has seriously taken up the issue of intellectual life in Mexico, and La sombra de Ulises (The Shadow of Ulysses) is the first effort by either a Mexican or North American scholar to address the interrelationship, structurally speaking, of intellectuals in Mexico and the United States. For this reason alone, it is a welcome work. . . . Aguilar Rivera's essays provide a readable, intriguing, and significant portrait of a neglected topic in cultural history.

Hispanic American Historical Review

Not only has it [The Shadow of Ulysses] found the strands of the dilemma that must be woven into a coherent whole. Not only does it propose alternatives for creating and strengthening communication that go beyond the barriers of language and combat 'the isolation and narrow-mindedness that has congealed down through the years'. Most of all, it inspires or should inspire researchers, academics and intellectuals from both sides to abandon their ivory towers and understand that it will be possible to build bridges only when 'we recognize that the river is both the Rio Grande and the Rio Bravo'.

Voices Of Mexico

This study will be a significant contribution to the field. It unearths or "remembers" an exchange of ideas . . . that has never really been documented before. Scholars will find it fascinating . . . to see how the ideas of key "public intellectuals" in a variety of disciplines play out, both in dialogue and in implementation, in a cross-cultural context.

Tamara R. Williams, Pacific Lutheran University