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Jan Potocki - The Manuscript Found in Saragossa - 9780140445800 - V9780140445800
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The Manuscript Found in Saragossa

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Description for The Manuscript Found in Saragossa Paperback. Alphonse, a young Walloon officer, is travelling to join his regiment in Madrid. 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. Translator(s): Maclean, Ian. Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 29. Weight in Grams: 456.
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, ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Penguin Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
Number of Pages
656
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780140445800
SKU
V9780140445800
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About Jan Potocki
Jan Potocki was born in Poland in 1761 into a very great aristocratic family, which owned vast estates. He was educated in Geneva and Lausanne, served twice in the army, and spent some time as a novice Knight of Malta. During his lifetime he was an indefatigable traveller and travel-writer, an Egyptologist and pioneering ethnologist, an occultist and an historian ... Read more

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