The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
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For the film, see The Saragossa Manuscript (film).
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (French: Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse; also known in English as The Saragossa Manuscript) 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,[1][2] during the reign of King Philip V (r. 1700–46).[3]
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Author | Jan Potocki |
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Original title | Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse |
Translator | Edmund Chojecki Ian Maclean |
Language | French |
Genre | Picaresque novel |
Publisher | Księgarnia Zagraniczna in Leipzig (first Polish edition) |
Publication date | 1805, 1813, 1847 |
Media type | Print (Hardback and Paperback) |
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The novel was adapted into a 1965 Polish-language film, The Saragossa Manuscript (Polish: Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie), by director Wojciech Has, with Zbigniew Cybulski as Alfonse van Worden.