The Elephant

Informationen zum Autor Slawomir Mrozek Klappentext The Elephant (1957) is Slawomir Mrozek's award-winning collection of hilarious and unnerving short stories, satirising 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. Zusammenfassung Offers a collection of short stories that satirizes the life in Poland under a totalitarian regime.

Product details

• Authors: Slavomir Mrozek, Slawomir Mrozek
• Assisted by: Daniel Mroz (Illustration), Konrad Syrop (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.05.2010
• EAN: 9780141193045
• ISBN: 978-0-14-119304-5
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 11 mm
• Series: Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Voices from Central Europe; European Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics; European Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), Short Stories