Jan Potocki

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.

The Manuscript Found in Saragossa

roman

Manuscrisul găsit la Saragosa

Further Tales from the Saragossa Manuscript

The New Decameron

This is an extraordinary collection of tales that is sure to appeal to all readers of the weird and supernatural. Written in French by a Polish nobleman and first published, almost secretly, in St. Petersburg in 1804. During the wars in Spain, an officer of the Walloon Guards finds, in a deserted castle in Saragossa, a manuscript of such absorbing interest that he carries it with him on his campaign. Taken prisoner by the Spaniards, he falls into the hands of a Spanish officer who claims that the manuscript belonged to his family. The Spaniard proceeds to dictate to his prisoner, now an honored guest in the officer's house, the remaining stories in this collection.

The Saragossa Manuscript

Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie Romans wydany posmiertnie

Manuscrit trouve a Saragosse[ Poln.]

Leszek Kukulski

Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie [Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse, poln.] Tekst przygot. iprzypisami opatrzy·l Leszek Kukulski

Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie

Jan Potocki

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