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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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Die Handschrift von Saragossa oder Die Abenteuer in der Sierra Morena, Jan Potocki, Leszek Kukulski
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- Released
- 2002
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- Good
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- Language
- German
- Authors
- Jan Potocki, Leszek Kukulski
- Publisher
- Heyne
- Released
- 2002
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 940
- ISBN10
- 3453213920
- ISBN13
- 9783453213920
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Adventure, Horror, Spain, Ghosts and Apparitions, Polish literature, 18th century, Poland, Enlightenment
- Original title
- Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse
- Rating
- 3.8 out of 5
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- 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.