It has already been noted that great authors often emerge as reactions to major social crises, and that an aggressive environment is more stimulating than a quiet, controlled, harmless one that does not directly threaten the author and therefore only promotes inertia. All of this is correct; but it remains to be seen that, for the reaction to take place, there needs to be an education that makes it possible to see the scale of the crisis, in other words, the author needs to be very clear about the basic foundations of a civilization, something that requires him, above all, to distance himself from the one in which he lives so that he can use it as an element of comparison.