by Jan Potocki · Adelphi · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788845907487
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«Manoscritto trovato a Saragozza» is the novel by Jan Potocki, published by Adelphi in paperback (255 pages, in Italian).
Classic of Polish literature written in French at the beginning of the 19th century: a succession of tales of ghosts, bandits, gypsies and cabalists, where each story opens within another, between black romanticism, the macabre and the comic.
Number 9 of the Gli Adelphi collection, with translation by Anna Devoto and edition by Roger Caillois.
For readers of classic and gothic fiction, interested in fantastic tales and 19th-century European narrative.
Count Jan Potocki was a Polish nobleman, ethnologist, linguist, traveller and author of the Enlightenment period, whose life and exploits made him a celebrated figure in Poland. He is known chiefly for his picaresque novel, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa.
