Manuscript Found in Saragossa

Alphonse, a young Walloon officer, is travelling to join his regiment in Madrid. But he soon finds himself mysteriously detained at a highway inn in the strange and varied company of thieves, brigands, cabbalists, noblemen, coquettes and gypsies, whose stories he records over sixty-six days.

Alphonse, un tanar ofiter valon, calatoreste pentru a se alatura regimentului sau din Madrid. Dar in curand se trezeste retinut in mod misterios la un han de autostrada in compania ciudata si variata de hoti, briganti, cabalisti, nobili, cochete si tigani, ale caror povesti le consemneaza pe parcursul a saizeci si sase de zile.