Many incidents and characters call to mind the cards from the Tarot's Major Arcana. This is the setting for the narrative of The Saragossa Manuscript, which is supposed to be written by a young Spanish officer, a French-educated captain in the Walloon Guards, who travelled there at the end of the eighteenth century. Prime members enjoy fast & free shipping, unlimited streaming of movies and TV shows with Prime Video and many more exclusive benefits. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to movies, TV shows, music, Kindle e-books, Twitch Prime, and more. I will never forget some of the images, Potocki had quite an imagination. Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2004. Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) is a service we offer sellers that lets them store their products in Amazon's fulfillment centers, and we directly pack, ship, and provide customer service for these products.

There are many hints of esoteric and alchemical arcana, but analysis of such recondite elements need not interrupt the reader's sheer enjoyment of Potocki's marvellous and intricately constructed narratives within narratives. Stunning - would give it 6 stars if I could. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. Add intriguing stories of love, struggle to get a place in society, and a fair bit of supernatural elements to the basic mix, and you get this book. Many incidents and characters call to mind the cards from the Tarot's Major Arcana. Jan Potocki was born in Poland in 1761 into a very great aristocratic family, which owned vast estates. A Polish nobleman, army officer, novice Knight of Malta, ethnologist, linguist, early balloonist, and world traveler, he is without question one of the most intriguing figures of his age. Does this book contain inappropriate content? But if you like a mixture of history, love stories, adventure, intrigue, deception, religion, the supernatural, mathematics, a centuries-old conspiracy, together with a huge array of characters, then you will love it. It also has an interesting history, supposedly a "found" manuscript, but that may be an apocryphal claim by the writer or publisher to make it more mysterious. © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates, History & Criticism of Victorian Literature. With Zbigniew Cybulski, Iga Cembrzynska, Elzbieta Czyzewska, Gustaw Holoubek.

It seems that this novel deserves to be more popular, it fits the modern attention span with its substratum of vignettes, and the larger grand story that encompasses them, a timeless tale. 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. 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.

I may give it a fourth try in my retirement. © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. o afiliados. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. I wish I could give SIX STARS to this one Customer rating 5.0/5.0 June 28 1998 By Kate Lawrence A quick note: Although Jan Potocki was Polish, he wrote The Saragossa Manuscript in French under the title "Manuscrit trouve' a' Saragosse." The Manuscript Found in Saragossa is a delicious rabbit hole down which the Masonic reader will, at times, feel he is witnessing a series of obscure Ecosais degrees. Try again. Jan Potocki (1761 - 1815) lived a life that reads more like fiction than fact. I had never heard of Jan Potocki until a few months ago when I read an article about Penguin Classics in the Guardian’s Saturday Review. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 7, 2019. We work hard to protect your security and privacy. He's combined so many elements, gothic horror, mysticism, cabbala, mathematics, duels, romantic pursuits, revenge, sin and redemption and more so the book has a kaleidoscopic feel to it. It starts out great with an interesting Don Quixote-like character, who is on a journey. Please try again.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 13, 2018. Ignoring advice to the contrary, he sets off across country accompanied by two servants who soon make off, leaving him alone in a deserted and semi-ruined inn or venta. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Please try your request again later. Por favor, inténtalo de nuevo más tarde.

Ian Maclean is Reader in French at the University of Oxford and a fellow of the Queen's College. It is odd, suspenseful, filled with folklore and gothic imagery. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. He committed suicide in 1815. Alphonse, a young Walloon officer, is travelling to join his regiment in Madrid in 1739.

The Goya on the cover was an excellent choice.

The author of the article recommended what seemed to be a random selection of ten novels, among which was this one.

Borne from the swirling currents of phantasmagoric orientalist conceits, masonic illuminism and the literary romantic gothicism of the 18th century Count Jan Potocki's 'The Manuscript Found at Saragossa' presents the reader with an undeniably beguiling feast of outre entertainments unfolding through the journey and adventures of our hapless hero, the young Walloon officer Alphonse Van Worden who stops at the haunted inn, the Venta Quemada, on his way to take up his military post at Madrid. The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (Penguin Classics). (Inglés) Pasta blanda – 1 septiembre 1996. Each starts their first person tale which invariable introduces a new person who tells their tale - this (honestly) leads to a confusing 5 level first person narrative i.e.

I had never heard of Jan Potocki until a few months ago when I read an article about Penguin Classics in the Guardian’s Saturday Review. 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. He's combined so many elements, gothic horror, mysticism, cabbala, mathematics, duels, romantic pursuits, revenge, sin and redemption and more so the book has a kaleidoscopic feel to it. This is basically a series of short stories written in 1813 in French by the Polish Potocki and to be fair the other reviewers have encapsulated the book. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 September 2018. Disabling it will result in some disabled or missing features. The Goya on the cover was an excellent choice. Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2015.

Directed by Wojciech Has. It also has an interesting history, supposedly a "found" manuscript, but that may be an apocryphal claim by the writer or publisher to make it more mysterious. As he meets other characters, they tell him stories, and the book quickly becomes a frame story: a story told within a story. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. Deceptively simple narration with thought provoking content, the book shares similarities with Sufi stories, myths, fables, Poe and much more. Revisado en el Reino Unido el 13 de noviembre de 2018. When I looked for it on Amazon it was clear that other Guardian readers had been searching for it and the other nine recommendations. Pity, it was an expensive purchase for me. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. 1-Click ordering is not available for this item. A Freudian could spend years investigating the recesses and depths of Potocki's subconscious. This book is a real gem! This review, in its brevity, can but give a mere glimpse of the delights of Jan Potocki's wondrous and labyrinthine novel which once discovered keeps drawing one back to savour its unusual pleasures and droll amusements. Alphonse, a young Walloon officer, is travelling to join his regiment in Madrid in 1739. Many incidents and characters call to mind the cards from the Tarot's Major Arcana. The Manuscript Found in Saragossa is a delicious rabbit hole down which the Masonic reader will, at times, feel he is witnessing a series of obscure Ecosais degrees. Still, I gave it one more try, same result. Unable to add item to List. También analiza las calificaciones para verificar su fiabilidad. If anything it leaves one with stronger sense of brotherhood and love for one's neighbor. But if you like a mixture of history, love stories, adventure, intrigue, deception, religion, the supernatural, mathematics, a centuries-old conspiracy, together with a huge array of characters, then you will love it.

Other characters include a madman, a cabalist, assorted bandits and gypsies, and a prosy and rather tiresome hermit. Clasificación en los más vendidos de Amazon: Revisado en el Reino Unido el 7 de mayo de 2019. Labyrinthine Secrets & Marvels of the Venta Quemada, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 May 2008. I had never heard of Jan Potocki until a few months ago when I read an article about Penguin Classics in the Guardian’s Saturday Review. I have been using the Kindle edition of this book to do the research for my blog,"Looking for the Manuscript Found in Saragossa," about Polish Count Jan Potocki and his spectacularly strange novel. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 January 2014.

The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics), The Yellow Wall-Paper, Herland, and Selected Writings (Penguin Classics). Stunning - would give it 6 stars if I could.

But it differs from them in one vital aspect - you discover in the end that all the stories are not just random tales, but each has its part to play in one overall story.

Among his other exploits were an ascent in a balloon over Warsaw with the aeronaut Blanchard and the provision of the first free press in that city.Potocki was proficient in many different languages, and his extensive travels led him through the Mediterranean, the Balkans, the Caucasus, and China. During his lifetime he was an indefatigable traveller and travel-writer, an Egyptologist and pioneering ethnologist, an occultist and an historian of the pre-Slavic peoples. Para calcular la calificación general por estrellas y el desglose porcentual por estrellas, no usamos un promedio simple. A Classic that deserves more attention. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Its 66 stories are by turn humorous, picaresque, erotic, gothic, and esoteric. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. Its 66 stories are by turn humorous, picaresque, erotic, gothic, and esoteric. No se ha podido agregar el producto a la Wish List. I can't recall specifically, but I think five levels deep into this obsessively framed story before I finally gave up. Definitely fits with modern multiculturalism, or what it should be anyway, and I guess the author was also a Freemason; a strange bag of humanism. Something we hope you'll especially enjoy: FBA items qualify for FREE Shipping and Amazon Prime. But it differs from them in one vital aspect - you discover in the end that all the stories are not just random tales, but each has its part to play in one overall story. I have not read a better classic work that so captivated me and my imagination. Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2019. Imagine a book written by Edgar Allen Poe, translated by Edward Fitzgerald, filtered through the consciousness of Jorge Luis Borges, and you would have some inkling of what makes this extraordinary book so special. But it differs from them in one vital aspect - you discover in the end that all the stories are not just random tales, but each has its part to play in one overall story.