{"product_id":"the-manuscript-found-in-saragossa","title":"The Manuscript Found in Saragossa","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt is 1739 and Alphonse van Worden  a Walloon officer serving the King of Spain  spends the night in a haunted inn in the Sierra Morena where he is plunged into a series of adventures  by turns mysterious  erotic and nightmarish. Convinced that he is being hunted by the Inquisition  he joins a band of wanderers - including a gypsy chief  a geometer  a cabbalist and the Wandering Jew himself - who travel aimlessly while regaling their companions with a hundred and more stories  and stories within stories  told over the course of sixty-six days  each day as disorienting as a thousand and one nights. And this nest of stories frames yet more stories driving the reader ever deeper into a labyrinth of sadism  satanism  the cabbala and other phantoms brought forth by the sleep of eighteenth-century Reason. For as well as being one of the great masterpieces of subversion  The Manuscript Found in Saragossa is also an encyclopedia of the dark side of the European Enlightenment. The Manuscript Found in Saragossa was written in French  probably between 1797 and 1815; this new translation makes the full text available in English for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44964048207925,"sku":"ByrdShop_0670834289","price":273.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780670834280.jpg?v=1770446719","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-manuscript-found-in-saragossa","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}