![]() ![]() Portrait of Jan Potocki by Anton Graff, 1785 The Saragossa Manuscript (as it is also known) is therefore that rare work of literature, the story of which is inextricably entwined with that of its author, each giving the other more speculative potency. Potocki’s immortality is due as much to the endurance of his strange, supernatural novel The Manuscript Found in Saragossa as it is due to the mystery and intrigues of his life – and the bizarre circumstances of his departure from it. However, here in Poland he remains a household name, achieving no small share of celebrity during his own lifetime, a celebrity which he has sustained in the nearly two centuries since his death. Most Western readers have never heard of Count Jan Potocki indeed, his singular literary masterpiece was only translated into English in 1995, some 180 years after it was completed. ![]() ![]() The Extraordinary Life of 'The Mad Count' ![]()
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