The elephant

• Date de parution : 23/04/2010
• Editeur : Adult Pbs
• EAN : 9780141193045
• Série : (-)
• Support : Papier

• Nombre de pages : (-)
• Collection : MODERN CLASSICS
• Genre : (-)
• Thème : Fiction (hors poche) : romans, théâtre, poésie, humour...
• Prix littéraire(s) : (-)

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... Voir plus

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.