He has been praised by icons of Latin American literature. In 1996, Mario Vargas Llosa wrote a two-page article in the newspaper El País where he analyzes the collection of essays . He judges Ospina's work as bewitching and of high quality, although Vargas Llosa does not agree with his ideas; he describes the author as a skilled manufacturer of sociological fictions that transfer to a mythical past. In 2005, Gabriel García Márquez defined Ospina's first novel as "the best book of the year", and Fernando Vallejo stated that the prose used in has no competitor in the Spanish language.
