The Manuscript Found in Saragossa

Blurb

The Manuscript Found in Saragossa, is a frame-tale novel written in French by Polish Enlightenment author, Count Jan Potocki. It is narrated from the time of the Napoleonic Wars, and depicts events several decades earlier, during the reign of King Philip V.
The novel was adapted into a 1965 Polish-language film, The Saragossa Manuscript, by director Wojciech Has, with Zbigniew Cybulski as Alfonse van Worden.