The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
€ 18,75
Informação do Produto
| ISBN | 9780140445800 |
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| Editora | |
| Data de Publicação | 07/03/1996 |
| Preço (iva excl.) | € 17,69 |
| Imposto | € 1,06 |
| Preço (iva inc.) | € 18,75 |
| Disponibilidade | 5 unidades em armazém externo |
Descrição do Produto
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.