![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jan Potocki (1761-1812) used a range of literary styles - gothic, picaresque, adventure, pastoral, erotica - in his novel of stories-within-stories, which, like the Decameron and Tales from the Thousand and One Nights, provides entertainment on an epic scale. The resulting manuscript is discovered some forty years later in a sealed casket, from which tales of characters transformed through disguise, magic and illusion, of honour and cowardice, of hauntings and seductions, leap forth to create a vibrant polyphony of human voices. ![]() The Saragossa Manuscript (161 results) You searched for: Title: the saragossa manuscript. But he soon finds himself mysteriously detained at a highway inn in the strange and varied company of thieves, brigands, cabbalists, noblemen, coquettes and gypsies, whose stories he records over sixty-six days. Jan Potocki The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (Penguin Classics) Kindle Edition by Jan Potocki (Author), Ian MacLean (Introduction, Translator) Format: Kindle Edition 4.5 168 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 12.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover from 86.52 6 Used from 86.52 2 New from 126. The Manuscript Found in Saragossa by Potocki, Jan and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at . The resulting manuscript is discovered some forty years later in a sealed casket, from which tales of characters transformed through disguise, magic and. Alphonse, a young Walloon officer, is travelling to join his regiment in Madrid in 1739. ![]()
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