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In:Where is Adaptation?: Mapping cultures, texts, and contexts
Edited by Casie Hermansson and Janet Zepernick
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures 9] 2018
► pp. 381–398

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Chapter 22
Stories ad infinitum

Embedded narratives and challenges in adapting The Saragossa Manuscript

Published online: 16 October 2018
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https://doi.org/10.1075/fillm.9.23nea
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
  • Notes
  • References
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