* Shaw, Donald, (1985) "Alejo Carpentier" Twayne World Author's Series, ISBN 0-8057-6606-5* Tusa, Bobs (1983) "Alchemy of a hero : a Comparative Study of the Works of Alejo Carpentier and Mario Vargas Llosa", Valencia; Chapel Hill : Albatros Hispanofila, ISBN 84-7274-099-4* Tusa, Bobs, (1982) "Alejo Carpentier, a Comprehensive Study", Valencia; Chapel Hill : Albatros Hispanofila, ISBN 84-7274-090-0* Wakefield, Steve (2004) "Carpentier's Baroque fiction : Returning Medusa's Gaze", Tamesis Books, ISBN 978-1-85566-107-3* Webb, Barbara (1992) "Myth and History in Caribbean Fiction : Alejo Carpentier, Wilson Harris, and Edouard Glissant", Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.
*Shaw, Donald, (1985) "Alejo Carpentier" Twayne World Author's Series, ISBN 0-8057-6606-5*Tusa, Bobs (1983) "Alchemy of a hero : a Comparative Study of the Works of Alejo Carpentier and Mario Vargas Llosa", Valencia; Chapel Hill : Albatros Hispanofila, ISBN 84-7274-099-4*Tusa, Bobs, (1982) "Alejo Carpentier, a Comprehensive Study", Valencia; Chapel Hill : Albatros Hispanofila, ISBN 84-7274-090-0*Wakefield, Steve (2004) "Carpentier's Baroque fiction : Returning Medusa's Gaze", Tamesis Books, ISBN 978-1-85566-107-3*Webb, Barbara (1992) "Myth and History in Caribbean Fiction : Alejo Carpentier, Wilson Harris, and Edouard Glissant", Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.