 His books have been the subject of numerous scholarly articles and theses, and have been taught in dozens of colleges and universities across the world.Four months after Dara’s first publication in Spanish, his work was included in a Madrid University course on the great American novel, where Dara's work was read alongside that of Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jack Kerouac, Philip Roth, Thomas Pynchon, and Toni Morrison.The only other writer of Dara's generation to be included in this survey was David Foster Wallace.