Was one of the great novels of the Enlightenment written by a man who thought he was a werewolf?Surreal, mysterious and with an outlandish origin story, Jan Potocki’s The Manuscript Found in Saragossa has amassed a cult following that includes Salman Rushdie and Jerry Garcia. But it’s the book’s global humanism makes it relevant now, say the curators of a new exhibitionby Tobias Greytheguardian.com/books/2026/novMore informationen.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manu#books #literature #cult #movies #culture

Jan Potocki, by Anton Graff, 1785.

An 18th-century oval oil portrait of a young man with wavy, shoulder-length brown hair and blue eyes. He wears a dark coat over a white open-collared shirt with a ruffled jabot, his arms folded and a faint smile on his face, against a gray-green background.

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