Description: The Manuscript Found in Saragossa Potocki, Jan and MacLean, Ian Product Overview 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. Read more Details Publisher : Viking Adult; Reprint edition (June 1, 1995) Language : English Hardcover : 656 pages ISBN-10 : 0670834289 ISBN-13 : 80 Item Weight : 2.15 pounds Dimensions : 20 x 20 x 20 inches Best Sellers Rank: #2,116,525 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #11,109 in Occult Fiction #84,812 in Literary Fiction (Books) #11,109 in Occult Fiction #84,812 in Literary Fiction (Books) We have been selling used books since 2012, and we've learned that the most important thing is doing good business. Honesty is our policy. Free Shipping We ship worldwide. We have multiple warehouses around the world, so please note the extended handling time on certain listings.
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ISBN: 0670834289
ISBN10: 0670834289
ISBN13: 9780670834280
EAN: 9780670834280
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Original Language: French
Book Title: Manuscript Found in Saragossa
Number of Pages: 656 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Topic: General, Literary
Publication Year: 1995
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 35 oz
Author: Jan Potocki
Format: Hardcover
