Topic

Jan Potocki

Topic

Jan Potocki

Was one of the great novels of the Enlightenment written by a man who thought he was a werewolf?

A Werewolf Legend, a Polish Count and a Novel Ahead of Its Time

A Swiss exhibition revives Jan Potocki's The Manuscript Found in Saragossa — a 1804 novel of nested tales that curators call a western One Thousand and One Nights.

November 5, 2026