"La Onda" literature focused upon the contemporary Mexican-identity cultural representations of 20th-century youth culture (language, music, fashion, etc.) produced by the mass communications media, and their cultural impact upon "México" and being "mexicano", and being "mexicana". The fiction was provocatively written, meant to "provoke" a response, and literary critics obliged the writers, calling the "literatura de La Onda" anti-literary literature; nonetheless, it proved popular as an alternative literature to the national literary canon established by tradition. Moreover, beyond fiction, the writers who were "La Onda" influenced the writers and journalists who established the Mexican new journalism, analogous to Hunter S. Thompson and Tom Wolfe in U.S. journalism. Notable works from "La Onda" include "Gazapo", by Gustavo Sainz, about the contradictory, volatile world of adolescence; and "De Perfil" (Profile View), by José Agustín, about the life of an indifferent student, and the adolescence he endures.