by Jan Potocki · Insel, Frankfurt · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783458318392
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«Die Handschrift von Saragossa» is the novel by Jan Potocki published by Insel, Frankfurt, in paperback (869 pages, in German).
Frame story featuring the young officer Alphonse van Worden, who crosses the Sierra Morena and encounters bandits, gypsies, cabalists and apparitions. From these arise inserted tales that, in the manner of One Thousand and One Nights, combine the realistic and the fantastic, with honour, religion, magic and human nature as backdrop.
Published in 1975, it is part of the Insel Taschenbuch series (no. 139), in two volumes, edited by Roger Caillois and with a selection of Goya's Caprichos.
For readers of European classics and of fantastic or gothic narrative with framed stories.
