Read in one go... Cabalistic twists and intertwined stories got me entangled and I couldn't stop reading. (probably it was also related to the fact that I had a lot to do and read the book for procrastination).

I'm also a fan of the movie and I'm looking forward to watch the movie again. What I'm also looking forward to is the complete edition of the Saragossa manuscript. The foreword of edition I read from 1987 was saying that the current edition includes only one forth of the complete work which was found by accident not to long ago (170 years after author's death) and is with the publisher. Does anybody knows more about this edition that according to the foreword is 700 pages long?

@len Though Potocki wrote in French, much of the 1804 manuscript had been lost and was known only through a Polish translation from 1847. This full version was translated back into French and published only in 1989, two years after (presumably) the incomplete French edition was published in Slovene translation (I don't have it at hand, but Cobiss says it was translated from the French in 1987). In a further twist, a new French edition from 2008 is based on Potocki's reworked 1810 manuscript 1/2

@len which apparently changes the tone a lot.

Also, OMG, where has this book been all my life? Thanks for bringing it up! Now to decide which version to read ... 2/2

@noctuaminervae@toot.si Did you read it already? and did you watch the movie? anyways @g1smo@toot.si lend it (1987 from Mladinska knjiga in Slovene) to me but I'd first like to lend it to @metkapolpetka before I give it back.

And I think I'll be ordering this "complete" edition (if available in english) from somewhere.

@len @g1smo @metkapolpetka No, i haven’t read it yet. I think the Penguin English edition is based on the 1989 “complete” French edition. If you read French, I believe you have two further options (a 2008 edition of the 1804/5 version and a 2008 version of the 1810 revision, based only on French sources).