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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.
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The Elephant, Sławomir Mrożek
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- Released
- 2010
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- Title
- The Elephant
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Sławomir Mrożek
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Released
- 2010
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 176
- ISBN10
- 0141193042
- ISBN13
- 9780141193045
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Humor, Classics, Short Stories, 20th century, Polish literature, Poland
- Rating
- 3.85 out of 5
- Description
- 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.