The Elephant
Rare and modern books
Slawomir Mrozek
Penguin 2010,
The Elephant
Rare and modern books
Slawomir Mrozek
Penguin 2010,
15.00 €
(Roma,
Italy)
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- Author
- Slawomir Mrozek
- Publishers
- Penguin 2010
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- Dust jacket
- False
- State of preservation
- As New
- Binding
- Softcover
- Inscribed
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- First edition
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Description
br. ed. 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.
