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It is 1739 and Alphonse van Worden, a Walloon officer serving the King of Spain, spends the night in a haunted inn in the Sierra Morena where he is plunged into a series of adventures, by turns mysterious, erotic and nightmarish. Convinced that he is being hunted by the Inquisition, he joins a band of wanderers - including a gypsy chief, a geometer, a cabbalist and the Wandering Jew himself - who travel aimlessly while regaling their companions with a hundred and more stories, and stories within stories, told over the course of sixty-six 'days', each day as disorienting as a thousand and one nights. And this nest of stories frames yet more stories driving the reader ever deeper into a labyrinth of sadism, satanism, the cabbala and other phantoms brought forth by the sleep of eighteenth-century Reason. For as well as being one of the great masterpieces of subversion, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa is also an encyclopedia of the dark side of the European Enlightenment. The Manuscript Found in Saragossa was written in French, probably between 1797 and 1815; this new translation makes the full text available in English for the first time.
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Manuscrito encontrado en Zaragoza
May 2003, Longseller, Longseller S.A.
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Manuscrito encontrado en Zaragoza
June 30, 2003, Alianza
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Die Handschrift von Saragossa oder Die Abenteuer in der Sierra Morena.
October 1, 2002, Heyne
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Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie
1998, Wydawn. Siedmioróg
in Polish
- Wyd. 1.
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Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse
1995, Livre de Poche
in French
- Nouv.ed. integ. établie par René Radrizzani.
2253063533 9782253063537
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Le Manuscrit Trouve a Saragosse
January 1, 1993, Livre de Poche
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2253063533 9782253063537
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Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse
1990, Corti
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Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse de Jean Potocki.
1989, J. Corti
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Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse
January 1, 1989, Gallimard
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2070251780 9782070251780
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Die Abenteuer in der Sierra Morena oder Die Handschriften von Saragossa: Roman
1984-05, Haffmans Verlag
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La\Duchessa d'Avila (Manuscrit Trouve a Saragosse)
October 1, 1972, French & European Pubns
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The Saragossa Manuscript: A Collection of Weird Tales
1960, Orion Press
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Edition Notes
Originally written in French, probably between 1797 and 1815. First modern French edition published in 1989.
Translation of: Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse.
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A set of tales within a tale of a wandering a French army officer's encounters of the supernatural as he travels after the siege of Saragossa. According to the preface by Roger Caillois, it was originally published in St. Petersburg around 1804 by the Polish writer Count Jan Potocki and part of the work was published in Paris in 1893. The French version was published in Polish in 1847 and several editions came out during the next century. Additional parts of the French version were found in Cracow in around 1956. This version follows the St. Petersburg text and does not include the new fragments.
The tales are marvelous. They contain illusion and fantasy as the characters tell their stories. The narrator (Officer) has a difficult time determining what is real, and so will you. There is death and corpses, beguiling spirit temptresses, phantoms, cabala, gypsies and much more - sometimes there is even a thread to connect the tales!
As a bonus, try to find the film version, which is just as fascinating. The entire film, but in segments, is available on YouTube in Polish. Somewhere, there is a version with English subtitles, which certainly adds to the dialog if you don't understand Polish.
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