The Elephant

Name: The Elephant
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
SKU: 9780141193045-V
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By Slawomir Mrozek

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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.

Product details

Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 8
Languages:: Original: English
Number of Pages:: 176
Publisher:: Penguin Books Ltd
Publication Date:: 2010-05-06
ISBN / EAN:: 9780141193045
Weight:: 139 g
Dimensions:: 13/20/2 cm
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]

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