Jan Potocki: 4 books

'As a reader you find yourself teased, intrigued and disorientated. You never quite know where you are - whether you are reading a series of lies, illusions and superstitious tales, or whether this is a great work of art with its own special kind of truth. Although the book clearly has roots in medieval...

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....

Hafız'ın Yolculuğu: Gizemli, çekici, düşsel, şiirsel, çarpıcı ve renkli bir Doğu öyküsü!Jan Potocki'nin koluna girip Hafız'ın yolculuğuna çıktığınızda bu öykünün içinde size de yer olduğunu göreceksiniz. Çok çok uzun yıllar öncesinde geçen, zekice kurgulanmış bu küçücük...

This is an extraordinary collection of tales that is sure to appeal to all readers of the weird and supernatural. Written in French by a Polish nobleman and first published, almost secretly, in St. Petersburg in 1804. During the wars in Spain, an officer of the Walloon Guards finds, in a deserted...