# The Manuscript Found in Saragossa

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- Authors: [Jean Potocki](https://www.bookquiver.com/jean-potocki)
- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4044-580-0
- Pages: 656
- Published: 2006-04-27
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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.