Categorii: Diverse
Limba: Engleza
Data publicării: 2010
Editura: Penguin Books
Tip copertă: Paperback
Nr Pag: 176
Colectie: Penguin Translated Texts
Traducatori: Konrad Syrop
ISBN: 9780141193045
Dimensiuni: l: 12.9cm | H: 19.8cm | 1cm
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.