#the Saragossa manuscript

[empirearchives]

More vampire stories from the Napoleonic era

From Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse (The Manuscript Found in Saragossa), by Jan Potocki, published between 1805-1815

[mirtapersonal]

The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (1965), from Wojciech Has, based on the 1815 novel by Jan Potocki.

I recommend watching this film if you enjoy hermetic and strange films. The whole thing is on yt with eng subs

[billlaotian]

[onlandandonsea]

lol

[sivavakkiyar]

The Manuscript Found In Saragossa another Polish literary W. Way before Barth a perfect mix of the 1001 Nights Decameron style frame tale story cycle and the novel form: really hard to do, makes it look effortless. Also really funny: interrupting the Trivulzio story at the point where it seems the ghosts are calling him to judgement, we return to the frame tale—-

[love-and-deepspace-wiki]

Random Facts: Xavier

Xavier's Book Collection:

When they show the interior of Xavier's apartment, they pan across a bookshelf. A majority of the books have titles that I can't quite make out, but they few I have solved are really interesting! I'm starting with the books placed above the television. If anyone knows the titles of the ones I can't figure out or has any ideas, drop a comment pls!

Book Titles:

Ordered from left to right, we have:

"(...) History of (...)"

"Code of (...)"

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"Manuscrit trouvé á Saragossa"

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Another "(...) History of (...)"

"(...) of the World"

[A book that's been shelved backwards for some reason lol]

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"The Prophet"

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"Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats"

"All About Protocores"

"A Book that Teaches You (...) (...)"

[A book with a blank spine]

Notable Books:

"Manuscrit trouvé á Saragossa"

This novel (English: "The Manuscript Found in Saragossa") is a French novel written by Jan Potocki at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. The novel consists of a collection of stories that are all set in Spain and cover a wide range of literary genres.

Speculation: Does this mean that Xavier canonically knows French?

"Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats"

This book is a collection of poems written by William Butler Yeats/W.B. Yeats. It's inclusion here is super interesting because, on the official Love and Deepspace social media accounts, they posted poems for each character. And Xavier's poem (below) was "When You Are Old" by William Butler Yeats! It seems Xavier is a Yeats fan!

[dedalvs]

I have two questions!

1 - Have you read all ASOIAF books? If yes, which is your favorite?

2 - What are your favorites books and why?

Thanks in advance ☺️❤️

I have! I think the third one was my favorite.

Some of my favorites books are:

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev

Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

The Manuscript Found in Saragossa by Jan Potocki

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

True Grit by Charles Portis

The Castle by Franz Kafka

The Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass by Fredrick Douglass

Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Sundiata by D. T. Niane

Paradise Lost by John Milton

Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

At this point I'm just copying stuff down from a book review site I used to have. I used to read a whooooooooole lot, but I haven't much recently. :( Maybe I'll get back to it some day. My favorite author is Virginia Woolf. There's nothing more enjoyable than reading something by her—anything. When it comes to a put-together book, though, I think To the Lighthouse is her best. The others I've read are a joy to read, but the end, they don't necessarily come together as well as a book, if that makes sense. Now I haven't read them all. I've read To the Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway, Jacob's Room, and Orlando. If I were to recommend a second one, it would be Orlando, which is a real adventure to read. But her writing is unlike any other. I adore her work.

Lately I've been rereading some of my favorites aloud to my daughter after school. We read The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear by Walter Moers, and we've now gone through four books by Tove Jansson: The Moomins and the Great Flood, Comet in Moominland, Finn Family Moomintroll, and Moominpappa's Memoirs. Next up is Moominsummer Madness before things get dark. lol But she's been enjoying them. I love Tove Jansson. She refused to write anything other than what she felt. (One of the reasons Finn Family Moomintroll was so odd. She felt a million eyes on her for perhaps the first time, and she was nervous. She settled back in after that.) There's also random things in there. In Moominpappa's Memoirs there's a drawing she did that's a send-up of Picasso's Guernica when Edward the Booble saves them at the end. I should put a picture of it, because I'm not sure anyone noticed... At least I can't find anything on the internet (probably searching wrong).

Anyway, that's some stuff.

[downwithpeople]

manuscript found in saragossa

bad book. there's a reason some literature stays obscure and doesn't get much weight in the cultural unconscious. the thing about 1001 arabian nights is that (at least in the translation i was reading) it's full of crazy shit happening all the fucking time. there's magic. there's pornography. it really has it all. potocki gestures towards the gothic but he keeps circling the drain of spanish nobility engaging in courtly romance. i basically skimmed the last twenty days of stories because i couldn't fucking take it anymore and i just wanted to get to the end.

the most compelling chapters and the really interesting mysteries are set up in the first third of the book, where alphonse keeps coming back to the gallows and finding people who seem to have been bewitched by twin succubi not dissimilar to the mysterious moorish princesses that fucked him on the first night. then they join up with the gypsy band (jan's words, not mine) and the shit really starts to drag. it's like a polish how i met your mother where the gypsy chief (jan's words, not mine) is determined to tell the life story of every single person he's ever met - almost all of whom were spanish nobles who dealt with trials of passion and noblesse oblige.

the driving mystery of the story is the sheikh of gomelez, a mysterious muslim noble who seems to have a kingdom inside the spanish empire. the twist of the story is that the sheikh is real, the gomelez dynasty truly exists in a massive cave system in the mountains of spain, they really are fabulously wealthy, and they want to give it all to alphonse. the moorish princesses are real and as beautiful and fecund as you can imagine. all of the supernatural shit was a secret test of character for alphonse, who ultimately doesn't even need to convert to islam. he becomes rich and influential and writes his manuscript.

it's not a book completely without merit but i strongly doubt i'm ever gonna come back to see what i missed in those last ten days of shitty stories.

[poranek]

hi! these are not only must-read books but more like must-read Texts according to me but here: "The Original Affluent Society" by Marshall Sahlins, Edward Said's "Orientalism," and when it comes to fiction I personally recommend "The Manuscript Found in Saragossa" by Jan Potocki and Robert Louis Stevenson's "Ollala" but these are much less popular, I haven't seen them referenced anywhere. I've heard people say "The Name of the Rose" is a popular must-read title and I agree :)

yesss my list is growing, thank you!

[thechaoticreader]

TTPD Song Titles As Books

Tortured Poets by Willow Bowery

Florida by Lauren Groff

Guilty As Sin by Bill Kitson

Clara Bow: Running Wild by David Stenn

The Black Dog by Kevin Bridges

The Albatross by Nina Wan | Albatross by Terry Falls

The Bolter: Edwardian Heartbreak and High Society Scandal in Kenya by Frances Osborne

The Manuscript Found In Saragossa by John Potocki

I Hate It Here by Alexis Williams

Cassandra by Christa Wolf

*I haven't read any of these, but it was fun to look through Goodreads and I will probably do a challenge where I try to read only books with the same titles as Taylor Swift songs*

[venicepearl]

Princess Julia Lubomirska (1764 – 22 August 1794) was a Polish noblewoman, known for her love life.

She was the daughter of Izabela Lubomirska, one of the richest people in the Commonwealth and cousin of the king Stanislaus Augustus, and the Grand Marshal of the Crown Stanisław Lubomirski. She was considered one of the most beautiful Polish women of her time, for which she was called "Guiliatta la bella".

In 1785 in Wilanów, she married Jan Nepomucen Potocki, travel writer best known for his novel The Manuscript Found in Saragossa and for being the first person in Poland to fly on a hot-air balloon. Soon after the wedding they went together to Italy, France, Britain, and the Netherlands for three years. During this time, she gave birth to Alfred and Artur while staying with her mother.

They returned in 1788, when Jan became an envoy at the Four-Year Sejm and Julia supported the Constitution of 3 May. It was during this time that she met Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko, also an envoy at said Sejm, with whom she had an affair well known socially. They were separated by his participation in the Polish–Russian War of 1792 and the Kościuszko Uprising, though they continued to correspond. Following the triumph of Russia over the Constitution and the accession of the king to the Targowica Confederation, Julia and her husband returned to France, where he had links with the Jacobins. While there, she provided Tadeusz Kościuszko with organisational and financial help in January 1793. After this, Jan went to Germany while Julia returned to Poland.

She died of tuberculosis, with her husband and two sons by her deathbed. Through her son Alfred Wojciech Potocki and his daughter the current royal family of Liechtenstein are her descendants.

[synesindri]

naming my ladies (two cellar spiders who live in my bathroom) emina and zubeida after the ghost/vampire/whatever girlies from the manuscript found in saragossa

[jacobwren]

Ten Favourite Books: Islands of Decolonial Love – Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Houses of Ravicka – Renee Gladman Aliens & Anorexia – Chris Kraus LOTE – Shola von Reinhold I Hotel – Karen Tei Yamashita The Transformation – Juliana Spahr The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll – Alvaro Mutis The Manuscript Found in Saragossa – Jan Potocki Third Factory – Viktor Shklovsky The Hills of Hebron – Sylvia Wynter

[cosmic-navel-gazin]

7 and 20 for the movie ask?

7. Has a film ever given you nightmares?

Probably the one that has given me the most nightmares where I would legit wake up in a sweat and overall just kept me awake at night for several days was the Spanish horror film Rec (2007). It didn't help that I probably watched it way too young.

20. What movies do you have on your current to-watch list?

SOOOO MANY ARGHHHHHH, but here's some:

L'hypothèse du tableau volé / The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (1978)

To Kill a Dragon 1988

Russian Ark 2002

Yo Ho Ho ( Йо-хо-хо) 1981

Iâhmès and the Great Devourer

Alice in the Cities

Decision to Leave

Betty tells her story 1972

Mad God

Oedipus Rex 1957

Rusalka 1996

Funeral Parade of Roses

Wild Strawberries

1001 Nights 1998

The Color of Pomegranates

Die Nibelungen

Viy (Вий)

The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (1962)

Peau d'âne 1970

Napoleon 1927

Tous les matins du monde

On the Silver Globe

The Saragossa Manuscript

The Duellists 1977

L'Avventura 1960

The Caiman 2006 (and films with Silvio Orlando in general cuz I fell in love with him in The Young Pope/The New Pope)

Häxan (1922)

The Birdcage 1996

Some Pedro Almodóvar Films I haven't seen yet like:

All About My Mother

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Tie me Up! Tie me Down!

A SHIT-TON OF BRITISH FILMS! I'VE BEEN WATCHING A DOCUMENTARY ON THE EVOLUTION OF BRITISH CINEMA FROM THE 60'S TIL THE 2000'S AND MY TO WATCH LIST IS GETTING OUTTA HAND, A COUPLE OF THEM I REMEMBER FROM THE LATEST EPISODES:

Wicker Man 1973

Distant Voices, Still Lives

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Kes

Withnail and I

A Taste of Honey

If….

The Servant 1963

Also have some dvd boxsets of Andrei Tarkovsky and Akira Kurosawa I gotta finish...

so many films...

so little time...

[onlandandonsea]

Look at my Napoleonic horror author….

[sivavakkiyar]

Queens mentioned (I know he’s not talking about Queens)