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The Manuscript Found in Saragossa

Jan Potocki

Paperback | Pages: 631 pages

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Original Title:	Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse
ISBN:	0140445803 (ISBN13: 9780140445800)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Alphonse van Worden, Cheik Gomelez, Émina et Zibeddé, L’ermite, Pascheco, Don Pedro Uzeda, Donna Rébecca Uzeda, Ahasuerus, Don Pedro Velasquez, Don Avadoro, Don Toledo, Busqueros, Les frères de Zoto

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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 - 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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Title	:	The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
Author	:	Jan Potocki
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Penguin Classics
Pages	:	Pages: 631 pages
Published	:	March 7th 1996 by Penguin Books Ltd (first published 1804)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Fantasy. European Literature. Polish Literature. Gothic. Horror. Cultural. Poland

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I've never tried hallucinogenic drugs, and I'm not sure I'll ever have to so long as a copy of this book is readily at hand. It's hard to pick a favorite scene -- a strong candidate is the one where a 16-year-old Jewess kabbalist-in-training kills a she-bear with a book cover (made of wood from the Ark of the Covenant, natch) and then fights off its cubs to suck on the dead bear's swollen teats for sustenance. Moments later the bear comes back to life, sort of, because it's possessed by a

Am I allowed to fully love a book I have never finished? A twisting gothic story cycle of tales within tales(and then within tales again) Kind of an updating of 1001 arabian nights and Dante's Divine Comedy(or the Decameron or Canterbery tales)for the age of reason(?!)Filled with ghoulish horror and lots of duels, weird intrigue, kabbalah, ghosts, hidden treasures, and lots of stories. If you are a fan of Milorad Pavic's Dictionary of the Khazars, Isak Dinesen's Seven Gothic Tales, Robert

I tend to introduce these reviews with a story or anecdote inspired by the text in question, something, in most cases, from my own past or present life. So as I came to write about Jan Potockis The Manuscript Found in Saragossa I was understandably perturbed when I realised that group sex [specifically threesomes] is so central to the novels plot. As much as I want to engage and entertain the reader, to build a relationship with the reader, I dont much fancy going there. Even a self-obsessed

Readers have loved this book for almost three hundred years (as well as being intrigued by the method of the author's suicide....look it up) but I finally abandoned it. When even a classic of the genre doesn't appeal, then the conclusion is that it isn't the genre for me and I should move on to another book in my ' to read' queue. Gothic fans, vampire tale lovers...give it a try.

What a book! It is a classic piece of literature from the 19th century; is is a voyage into literatures most consecrated vaults. Gothic, Erotic, Picaresque, and Pastoral genres inundated this complex and vividly striking tale. It is a brilliant mix of Don Quixote, The Decameron, and The Arabian Nights into a unique book that deserves its own status as a literary giant. The best way to describe it? "It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma".I already miss it....

Count Jan Potockis The Manuscript Found in Saragossa has somewhat of a cult following amongst fans of Gothic fiction. It consists of a collection of supernatural tales linked together by a complex series of frame stories, as in a nightmarish hall of mirrors. It has been called a "black Decameron". This is a really apt description, considering that practically all Gothic tropes are represented in the convoluted text: from ghosts to vampires, secret societies to violent bandits, underground

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