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Book SynopsisThe book features a detailed analysis and interpretation of «The Saragossa Manuscript» (1964) by Wojciech Jerzy Has. The interpretative key is the director’s reference to the aesthetics of various art trends, starting with baroque, through romanticism, symbolism, surrealism and the culture of Orient. The artistic references named here which to a high degree can be brought down to quotations and hints (the composition of stop-frames referring to the style of a given painter or an art trend) are to a large extent the consequence of having been adapted by a particular novel (Jan Potocki). Notwithstanding, also this time Has stigmatised the project with his own style by referring to the aesthetics of surrealism which was alien to the literary prototype.
Table of ContentsPolish cinema of 1964/1965 – Background of the realisation – Script and shooting script – Jan Potocki and his masterpiece – Secret «hieroglyph» – A Baroque feast – Oriental dream – Surreal fantasy – Krzysztof Penderecki’s musical experiment – Manuscript «found abroad» – «Perceiving a Particle, you Perceive Depth»
