Chapter 22
Stories ad infinitum
Embedded narratives and challenges in adapting The Saragossa Manuscript
Article outline
- Embedded narratives, Matrioshkis, romans à tiroirs
: Jan Potocki’s literary system
- Order and chaos
- Human experience
- Illusion and spectacle
- Options for adaptation: A speculative approach
- Division, fragmentation, selection
- Transformation, representation
- Metafilms (or films about films): Illumination
- Jan Potocki’s Manuscript Found in Saragossa
: A Labyrinth
- Wojciech Has’ Saragossa Manuscript
: Montage and spectacle
- Conclusion
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Notes
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References