logo
Wrong email address or username
Wrong email address or username
Incorrect verification code
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa - Jan Potocki, Ian Maclean
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
by: (author) (author)
4.50 20
Alphonse, a young Walloon officer, is travelling to join his regiment in Madrid in 1739. 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... show more
Alphonse, a young Walloon officer, is travelling to join his regiment in Madrid in 1739. 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. 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. 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.
show less
Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780140445800 (0140445803)
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 631
Edition language: English
Bookstores:
Community Reviews
capriceum
capriceum rated it
4.0 The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
Wow, what an adventure. This book was full of all sorts of interesting characters, and it was fun to see how all their stories were interwoven together. Velásquez the geometer was the best, right next to the Wandering Jew! Thanks to this book I'm actually really interested in Jewish mysticism, and w...
Edward
Edward rated it
0.0 The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
IntroductionTranslator's NoteA Note on the Geographical LocationGlossaryA Guide to the Stories--The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it
4.0
saragossa manuscript1809film onlytranslationbooks about bookswinternapoleonicpolish rootgothicadventuretranslationThe Saragossa Manuscript (1965) Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie (original title)From IMDB - In the Napoleonic wars, an officer finds an old book that relates his grandfather's story, Al...
Other editions (8)
Books by Ian Maclean
Books by Jan Potocki
On shelves
Share this Book
Need help?