Mrozek, Slawomir : The Elephant
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"The Elephant (1957)" is Slawomir Mrozek's award-winning collection of hilarious and unnerving short stories, satirizing life in Poland under a totalitarian regime. The family of a wealthy lawyer keep a 'tamed progressive' as a pet; a zoo saves money for the workers by fashioning their elephant from rubber; a swan is dismissed from the municipal park for public drunkenness; and, under the Writers' Association, literary critics are banished to the salt mines. In these tales of bureaucrats, officials and artists, Mrozek conjures perfectly a life of imagined crimes and absurd authority.
| Condition: |  |
| Category: | Books > Foreign Language Books > Books in English > |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books, é.n. |
| Item number / ISBN: | 9780141193045 |
| Binding: | paperback |
| Page count: | 176 |
| Item language: | English |
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