"The stories of Marcelo Mellado fundamentally confront us with voices, voices that tell things, that argue heatedly, that they think, that they give explanations or that they are justified. They belong to different subjects, but all place their owners as core individuals, characteristic of groups, or 'tribes', that confer identity at a time when the identities, in the opinion of some, are at stake or in danger of extinction. José Promis "There is no bucolismo in the vision of Mellado, nor plain old manliness. Rather, what it does is to deploy an instrument of observation through which things appear with stark harshness. Such is the humorous pathos of his narrative. His characters have no right to any social redemption; seem doomed to replicate with their lives a feble model: that of the rogue. " Roberto Merino "The art of vituperio, like an eternalized and overflowing ritual, has a portentous cultor in Marcelo Mellado". Patricia Espinosa "Marcelo Mellado is a writer who annoys a lot of people, and this feature of literary personality is something very meritorious, even more so when the sniper performs it by having, at hand, among his most precious ammunition, a sharp humor and the always burning elegance of the word well-managed. "