The 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 la Madrid. Dar curand se trezeste retinut in mod misterios la un han de drum, in compania stranie si variata a hotilor, talharilor, cabalistilor, nobililor, cochetelor si tiganilor, ale caror povesti le consemneaza pe parcursul a saizeci si sase de zile.