Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse
aka Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
frame narrative
unfinished
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa is a frame-tale novel written in French at the turn of 18th and 19th centuries by the Polish author Count Jan Potocki (1761–1815). It is narrated from the time of the Napoleonic Wars, and depicts events several decades earlier, during the reign of King Philip V.Wikipedia →
Originally composed in French and partially published in 1805. The original manuscript is now lost, with missing sections having been reconstructed from an 1847 Polish translation by Edmund Chojecki.
Translations
The Saragossa Manuscript: A Collection of Weird Tales
tr. Elisabeth Abbott · Orion Press · United States · 1960
The New Decameron: Further Tales from the Saragossa Manuscript
tr. Elisabeth Abbott · Orion Press · United States · 1966
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