Potocki's most famous work is The Manuscript Found in Saragossa. Originally written in French as Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse, it is a frame tale which he wrote to entertain his wife. On account of its rich interlocking structure and telescoping story sequences, the novel has drawn comparisons to such celebrated works as the Decameron and the Arabian Nights/5(K). The Manuscript Found in Saragossa is a complex interweaving of tales narrated by a young army officer called Alphonse van Worden, who kept a diary of his experiences in the Sierra Morena in , recording both the events which he witnessed and the stories he was told 4/5(32). An awful lot of Potocki’s erudition is packed into this novel, along with an enormous amount of imagination and entertainment. We’re asked to believe that there really was a manuscript found in Saragossa, composed by a young army officer who spent sixty-six days listening to a complex web of tales in some remote mountains in bltadwin.ru by:
Film still from The Manuscript Found in Saragossa; Wojciech Has, In , Potocki's strange novel was made into a highly regarded film by Polish director Wojciech Jerzy Has, who managed to successfully translate the gothic eroticism of the text to celluloid. Starring 'the Polish James Dean,' Zbigniew Cybulski, and with music by. The novel's narrator, Alphonse van Worden, a young Walloon officer journeying to join his regiment in Madrid in , is diverted into the Sierra Morena and mysteriously detained in the company of thieves, cabbalists, noblemen and gypsies, whose stories he records as he hears them, day by day over a period of sixty-six days. The Manuscript Found In Saragossa () by Jan Potocki. Jan Potocki and the Manuscript Found in Saragossa. In the early 18th century Antoine Galland completed what is considered the first European translation of The Thousand and One Nights. To say The.
Potocki's most famous work, originally written in French, is The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse). It is a frame tale. On account of its rich, interlocking structure, and telescoping story sequences, the novel has drawn comparisons to such celebrated works as the Decameron and the Arabian Nights. The Manuscript Found in Saragossa is a complex interweaving of tales narrated by a young army officer called Alphonse van Worden, who kept a diary of his experiences in the Sierra Morena in , recording both the events which he witnessed and the stories he was told by the company in which he found himself. The Manuscript Found in Saragossa follows in the time-honored tradition that spans the breadth of world literature through the course of history, that of the frame narrative. Potocki’s opus stands directly on the shoulders of such literary giants that were constructing such frame narratives well before the Nineteenth Century.
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