Author: Jan Potocki (hrabia)
Publisher: Hippocrene Books
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Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
The Saragossa Manuscript
Author: Jan Potocki (hrabia)
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Category : French fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A collection of loosely related stories, presented as if found in an anonymous manuscript in Saragossa by an unnamed French officer. Also included (by the editor) are a selection of short stories originally published in the 1813 edition of "Avadoro."
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Category : French fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A collection of loosely related stories, presented as if found in an anonymous manuscript in Saragossa by an unnamed French officer. Also included (by the editor) are a selection of short stories originally published in the 1813 edition of "Avadoro."
Tales from the Saragossa Manuscript
Author: Jan Potocki (hrabia)
Publisher: Hippocrene Books
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Publisher: Hippocrene Books
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Tales from the Saragossa Manuscript
Author: Jan Potocki (hrabia)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 159
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
The Saragossa Manuscript
Author: Jan Potocki
Publisher: Olympia Press
ISBN: 1626573131
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
This is an extraordinary collection of tales that is sure to appeal to all readers of the weird and supernatural. Written in French by a Polish nobleman and first published, almost secretly, in St. Petersburg in 1804. During the wars in Spain, an officer of the Walloon Guards finds, in a deserted castle in Saragossa, a manuscript of such absorbing interest that he carries it with him on his campaign. Taken prisoner by the Spaniards, he falls into the hands of a Spanish officer who claims that the manuscript belonged to his family. The Spaniard proceeds to dictate to his prisoner, now an honored guest in the officer's house, the remaining stories in this collection.
Publisher: Olympia Press
ISBN: 1626573131
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
This is an extraordinary collection of tales that is sure to appeal to all readers of the weird and supernatural. Written in French by a Polish nobleman and first published, almost secretly, in St. Petersburg in 1804. During the wars in Spain, an officer of the Walloon Guards finds, in a deserted castle in Saragossa, a manuscript of such absorbing interest that he carries it with him on his campaign. Taken prisoner by the Spaniards, he falls into the hands of a Spanish officer who claims that the manuscript belonged to his family. The Spaniard proceeds to dictate to his prisoner, now an honored guest in the officer's house, the remaining stories in this collection.
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
Author: Jan Potocki
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141914130
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book 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.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141914130
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book 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.
The New Decameron
Author: Jan Potocki
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Manuscrit Trouvé À Saragosse. The Saragossa Manuscript. A Collection of Weird Tales. Edited and with Preface by Roger Caillois. Translated by Elizabeth Abbott
Author: Jan POTOCKI (Count.)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The Saragossa Manuscript
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Saragossa Manuscript
Author: Daniel Nohelj
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Another Canon
Author: Grazyna Borkowska
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 3643912854
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Polish contemporary literature is not a closed book to European and world readers. Those not involved professionally in the production or study of literature may well have heard of Stanisaw Lem, Witold Gombrowicz, Czesaw Miosz, Wisawa Szymborska or the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2018, Olga Tokarczuk. The situation is different with Polish literature of earlier periods, including the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novel. The works of Ignacy Krasicki, Micha Czajkowski, J'ozef Ignacy Kraszewski, Eliza Orzeszkowa, Maria Komornicka, Stefan Zeromski and Bolesaw Prus - the exception perhaps is Henryk Sienkiewicz, whose novels were translated into many languages - did not enter European circulation on any large scale and have rarely been included in comparative studies. Our book attempts to change this perspective and poses the question as to whether another - expanded and more inclusive - literary canon is possible.
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 3643912854
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Polish contemporary literature is not a closed book to European and world readers. Those not involved professionally in the production or study of literature may well have heard of Stanisaw Lem, Witold Gombrowicz, Czesaw Miosz, Wisawa Szymborska or the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2018, Olga Tokarczuk. The situation is different with Polish literature of earlier periods, including the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novel. The works of Ignacy Krasicki, Micha Czajkowski, J'ozef Ignacy Kraszewski, Eliza Orzeszkowa, Maria Komornicka, Stefan Zeromski and Bolesaw Prus - the exception perhaps is Henryk Sienkiewicz, whose novels were translated into many languages - did not enter European circulation on any large scale and have rarely been included in comparative studies. Our book attempts to change this perspective and poses the question as to whether another - expanded and more inclusive - literary canon is possible.