LoginThe Manuscript Found in Saragossa
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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 - go
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Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Release date: 1 September 1996
ISBN-10 : 0140445803 | ISBN-13: 9780140445800
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Release date: 1 September 1996
ISBN-10 : 0140445803 | ISBN-13: 9780140445800
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