Thursday, May 31, 2012

Manuscript Found in Saragossa

I finished reading The Manuscript Found in Saragossa, and I wasn't so impressed.  I think Potocki used up his best material in the first third, and the effort of tying the stories together didn't really work for me.  And the ending is a total disaster. 

I'm not if the school that says that the ending of a novel can break the whole thing if it's not good, especially not for such a mosaic novel as this one.  But I was really losing steam by 2/3 of the way through, and I only pushed through to see how Potocki would end it, and was very disappointed.

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