The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
by Jan Potocki, Ian Maclean

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• Characters: Alphonse van Worden, Cheik Gomelez, Émina et Zibeddé, L’ermite, Pascheco
• Author: Jan Potocki, Ian Maclean
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Language: english
• ISBN: 9780140445800 (0140445803)
• Format: paperback, 631 pages
• Release date: March 7, 1996
• Genres: fiction, classics, fantasy, gothic, horror, poland, literature, novels

About The Book

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.

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