In his masterpiece, whose title is borrowed for this piece, Alejo Carpentier distinguishes the difference between magical thinking and the marvelous real -not to be confused with García Márquez’s magical realism-. Writes Carpentier:  “But it is that many forget, by disguising themselves as magicians and at little cost, that the marvelous unequivocally begins to be … Continue reading The Kingdom of this World.