sentences:  According to Manén himself, self-learning was constant and every day he realized he had made mistakes.It is for this reason, as we will see later, that the re-elaboration of his works was a constant tonic throughout the first two decades of the 20th century.As for the style and influences of the first works, we can see that in many cases he took Spanish and Catalan popular themes that were reelaborated through a more central European language than Spanish.