 Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier and Venezuelan Arturo Uslar-Pietri, for example, were strongly influenced by European artistic movements, such as Surrealism, during their stays in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s.One major event that linked painterly and literary magic realisms was the translation and publication of Franz Roh's book into Spanish by Spain's "Revista de Occidente" in 1927, headed by major literary figure José Ortega y Gasset.