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Slawomir Mrozek
Elephant [EPUB ebook]

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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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Language English ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9780141957241 ● Publisher Penguin Books Ltd ● Published 2010 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2271013 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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