{"first_publish_date": "1962", "lc_classifications": ["PQ2019 P87 M315", "PQ2019.P87 M3 1989", "PG2019.P87 M37", "PZ3.P8495 Sar", "PQ'2019'P87'M3'1990"], "key": "/works/OL3150684W", "title": "Manuscrit trouv\u00e9 \u00e0 Saragosse", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL2937134A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "covers": [4041071, 6388657, 4902643, 4988009, 969009, 2136321, 5402429], "dewey_number": ["843/.6", "843.6"], "subjects": ["Adventure stories", "French fiction", "Translations into Polish", "Social life and customs", "Translations into English", "Fiction", "Fiction, general", "New York Times reviewed", "Spain, fiction", "Gothic fiction", "Horror fiction"], "description": "A set of tales within a tale of a wandering a French army officer's encounters of the supernatural as he travels after the siege of Saragossa. According to the preface by Roger Caillois, it was originally published in St. Petersburg around 1804 by the Polish writer Count Jan Potocki and part of the work was published in Paris in 1893. The French version was published in Polish in 1847 and several editions came out during the next century. Additional parts of the French version were found in Cracow in around 1956. This version follows the St. Petersburg text and does not include the new fragments.\r\n\r\nThe tales are marvelous. They contain illusion and fantasy as the characters tell their stories. The narrator (Officer) has a difficult time determining what is real, and so will you. There is death and corpses, beguiling spirit temptresses, phantoms, cabala, gypsies and much more - sometimes there is even a thread to connect the tales!\r\n\r\nAs a bonus, try to find the film version, which is just as fascinating. The entire film, but in segments, is available on YouTube in Polish. Somewhere, there is a version with English subtitles, which certainly adds to the dialog if you don't understand Polish.", "subject_places": ["Spain"], "subject_times": ["18th century"], "links": [{"title": "New York Times review", "url": "http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/14/books/love-beneath-the-gallows.html", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "latest_revision": 6, "revision": 6, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T02:25:35.150263"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-01-25T07:34:31.140484"}}