The elephant
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Bibliographic Information
The elephant
（Penguin modern classics, . Central European classics ; fiction）
Penguin, 2010
- : pbk
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"First published in Polish by Wydawnictwo Literackie, Krakow, 1958"--T.p. verso
"Published in Penguin classics 2010"--T.p. verso
Contents of Works
- From the darkness
- Birthday
- The elephant
- A silent hero
- Children
- The trial
- The swan
- Tiny
- The lion
- The parable of the miraculous escape
- Monologue
- The giraffe
- The parson and the band
- It's a pity
- I'm subtle
- The monument
- The background to an era
- In the drawer
- A fact
- A confession about Bobby
- A drummer's adventure
- The co-operative
- Peer Gynt
- Letter from an old people's home
- Golden thoughts
- The last hussar
- Horses
- Poetry
- A citizen's fate
- My uncle's stories
- The pastor
- An event
- On a journey
- Art
- A forester in love
- Spring in Poland
- Siesta
- Modern life
- The veteran
- The sceptic
- I want to be a horse
- The chronicle of a besieged city
Description and Table of Contents
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.
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