The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
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, picaresq…
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Weitere Autoren: MacLean, Ian (Einf.)
- ISBN: 978-0-14-191413-8
- EAN: 9780141914138
- Produktnummer: 17831943
- Verlag: Penguin
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 656 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 888 KB
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