While exploring a palace, a man in this novel goes mad and develops malaria after discovering a naked statue of a woman for whom he worked as a masseur. This novel’s epigraph is a conversation between the Devil and Providence from Lope de Vega’s The King of the West. A crowd in this novel believes that a man escapes his execution in the city square by flying away from his pyre, but do not notice soldiers forcing him into the fire. At the end of this novel, the resigned protagonist shapeshifts into a bird, a stallion, (10[1])a wasp, and an ant, before finally turning into a goose who is rejected by a flock of geese. The term “lo real maravilloso (“loh rey-AHL mahr-ah-vee-YOH-soh”)” was coined in the prologue of this novel, which begins with the one-armed slave Macandal telling stories. For 10 points, name this novel that chronicles Ti Noel’s life during the Haitian Revolution, written by Alejo Carpentier. ■END■