#SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT BOOK FULL#

(The Diamond catalogue is the size of a phone book. Trust me.īob Garcia, publisher of A WALKING TOUR OF THE SHAMBLES, the funny-scary 48 page book by Gene Wolfe and me (cover by Gahan Wilson, Illustrated by Randy Broeker and Earl Geir, you know the routine) has got the orders in from Diamond distributors, and found them woefully low, mostly because the book was listed way at the back under horror books, and most comics stores don't read through that far. Find out if your local library or video store is going to get it in. Tell people you want it for your birthday. You can buy it at any of the Usual Suspect places. Rotten Tomatoes has collected some of the reviews over at The Saragossa Manuscript (1965): Zbigniew Cybulski, Iga Cembrznska, Joanna Jedryka, Wojciech Has. It may be the oddest and coolest film ever made, for those who like stories.

#SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT BOOK FULL#

(You had to ask? This is why I love being an author.)Īnd it arrived, a crisp and clean black and white print, a full half hour longer than the version I'd seen. Last August, a message came in on the FAQ line, from someone at a DVD company, letting me know it would be out on DVD around now, and would I like a copy? I'd run across mentions of it from time to time (Angela Carter, saying that the way she and Neil Jordan constructed COMPANY OF WOLVES was inspired by the film of Saragossa.) Once I'd given it away I started to doubt that I'd ever seen it all. Set in Spain, acted and directed by Poles in 1965, it was special. I watched it for weeks, over and over - two and a half hours worth of quirky, brilliant, intricate, funny, scary, sexy, and strange film, and then put it away and later gave it to a friend: things like this, I thought, should keep moving. It was on two VHS tapes, and had been copied so many times that, despite having started out in black and white, it was now picking up colour. Some years ago, knowing my fondness for the book, author Ian McDowell (not to be confused with any other Ian Mcauthors) found for me a copy of the film. I review it in the December 2001 journal.

One of my favorite books is Count Jan Potocki's Manuscript Found In Saragossa.

Saragossa manuscript book