 In 1925, he republished some of his writings from "Cosmópolis" under the title "European Vanguard Literature", a work which enjoyed enormous success in Spain and Latin America ("For us," said Alejo Carpentier, "it was a kind of Bible") for its elucidation of such a vast and complex subject.In 1965 an expanded, revised edition, omitting the apologetic tone of the original, was released in three volumes under the title "History of Vanguard Literature".De Torre had a strong interest in the relationship between poetry and visual imagery, and drew upon the theme of cybernetics.