[PDF/Kindle] The Manuscript Found in Saragossa by Jan Potocki
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The Manuscript Found in Saragossa. Jan Potocki
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ISBN: 9780140445800 | 656 pages | 17 Mb
- The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
- Jan Potocki
- Page: 656
- Format: pdf, ePub, fb2, mobi
- ISBN: 9780140445800
- Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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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