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Originally published in Polish [as Rkopis Znaleziony w Saragossie, 1847], later translated into French as Manuscrit trouv Saragosse, the work is a supposed translation of a manuscript from the time of the Napoleonic Wars which depicts events several decades earlier. As for the plot - the plot! The Manuscript Found in Saragossa collects intertwining stories, all of them set in whole or in part in Spain, with a large and colorful cast of Gypsies, thieves, inquisitors, a cabbalist, a geometer, the cabbalist's beautiful sister, two Moorish princesses (Emina and Zibelda), and others. 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 these thieves, brigands, cabbalists, noblemen, coquettes and gypsies. He records their stories over sixty-six days. The resulting manuscript is discovered some forty years later in a sealed casket, from which the tales of the 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. The novel's stori

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Author

Jan Potocki

Publisher

Viking Penguin Books

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780140445800

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Romance, Children'S

Rating

4.17 / 5 (1,398 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14