基本信息出版社：Penguin Classics
页码：656 页
出版日期：1996年09月
ISBN：0140445803
条形码：9780140445800
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语
丛书名：Penguin Classics

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Alphonse, a young Walloon officer, is travelling to join his regiment in Madrid in 1739. But he soon finds himself mysteriously detained at a highway inn in the strange and varied company of thieves, brigands, cabbalists, noblemen, coquettes and gypsies, whose stories he records over sixty-six days. 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. 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.
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Original Language: French --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Original Language: French --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.