- Series: Penguin Modern Classics
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- ISBN: 9780141193045
- Length: 176 pages
- Dimensions: 197mm x 10mm x 130mm
- Weight: 137g
- Price: £9.99
The Elephant
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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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- Paperback 2010
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