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The Manuscript Found in Saragossa

The Manuscript Found in Saragossa

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Product Code:
2145-01
ISBN
978-619-01-0258-8
SKU
17.0080
Year
25-06-2018
Translation
From French: Georgi Tsankov
Pages
600
Size
170/240 мм
Weight
0.958 kg
Collection
Колекция "Върхове"
Cover Type
Hardcover
Genre
Classics, Historical Fiction, Adventure Novels, Travels

Jan Potocki

Jan Potocki

Count Jan Potocki (1761–1815) was a Polish nobleman, Polish Army Captain of Engineers, ethnologist, Egyptologist, linguist, traveler, adventurer, and popular author of the Enlightenment period, whose life and exploits made him a legendary figure in his homeland. Outside Poland he is known chiefly for his novel, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa. He was born on March 8th, 1761 in Pików in the Podol…

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A literary masterpiece by a Polish traveller, aristocratic adventurer, political activist, ethnographer and publisher

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 the disguise, magic, and illusion, of honor 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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