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The Kingdom of This World

work by Carpentier

Also known as: “El reino de este mundo”

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In Alejo Carpentier
…reino de este mundo (1950; The Kingdom of This World); it is about the Haitian revolution. In the prologue to this work, Carpentier expounds on magic realism, which he defines as the representation of “marvelous American reality.” His novel Los pasos perdidos (1953; The Lost Steps), his best-known work, is…
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Latin American literature

In Latin American literature: The modern novel
…reino de este mundo (1949; The Kingdom of This World). Asturias’s novel, about the dictatorship of Manuel Estrada Cabrera in Guatemala, employs Surrealist techniques to create an aura of fear and the sense that events are guided by supernatural forces, echoing Native American beliefs. Carpentier writes about Haiti from 1750…
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