The Manuscript Found in SaragossaBy: Jan Potocki 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