The Manuscript Found in Saragossa

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The Manuscript Found in Saragossa

Editorial: penguin_classics

ISBN: 978-01-4044-580-0

ISBN sin guiones: 9780140445800

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 656

Fecha de publicación: 2006-04-27

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

The Manuscript Found in Saragossa

Editorial: Penguin

ISBN: 978-01-4191-413-8

ISBN sin guiones: 9780141914138

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 656

Fecha de publicación: 2006-04-27

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

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The Manuscript Found in Saragossa

Jean Potocki

Primera publicación: 2006-04-27

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.