Tientos y diferencias y otros ensayos / Tientos and Differences and Other Essays
Non-fiction , 1964
Plaza & Janés
Pages: 288
This collection gathers a selection of essays, articles, lectures, and other works by Alejo Carpentier. Through these pages, Carpentier reviews an entire cultural and political era and portrays international figures such as Jean Cocteau, Picasso, Debussy, Stravinsky, Manuel de Falla, Chirico, and Le Corbusier, among others. It includes: Tientos and differences, Reason for Being, The Latin American Novel on the Eve of a New Century, and other essays.