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.

The Elephant (Penguin Modern Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Mrożek, SŁawomir

Genre Fiction

Penguin Classics

Tango; (Cape editions)

Jonathan Cape Ltd.

Striptease, Repeat performance, and The prophets;: Three plays,

GROVE PRESS

Satirical stories deal with superstition, bureaucracy, propaganda, appearance and reality, courtship, marriage, class structure, and education

The Elephant (English and Polish Edition)

Grove Pr

This important play from one of Poland's most prominent playwrights has had successful stagings in San Francisco, Minneapolis, Washington, D.C., and New York. It takes place on a New Year's Eve in an unnamed country in the home of two immigrants. One is a political exile, an intellectual who gets his money from a mysterious source. The other is a ditch digger who is saving money to bring over his family.

Emigrants, The

Beissel, Henry

Dramas & Plays

Concord Theatricals

S³awomir Mro¿ek has reigned as the pre-eminent playwright and satirist of Eastern Europe for the past half-century. A sharp critic of all oppressive systems during the Cold War, he began his career as a young enthusiast for the new Communist regime in the early 1950s. It didn’t take long, however, until he was deemed such a threat that his work was banned not only in his native Poland, but also in all Eastern bloc countries. After the fall of Communism, he returned home from self imposed exile in the West and was recognized as a major literary figure. This reissue of fourteen plays and ten short stories, along with a sampling of his capricious cartoons, affirms Mro¿ek’s mastery of a wide spectrum of styles, and illustrates the development of his talent over the decades. From the vantage point of the twenty-first century, Mro¿ek’s questioning of authority, his razor-sharp sense of the comic, and his spirit of contradiction seem as fresh, and as relevant, as ever.

The Mrozek Reader

Six Plays

Boulevard Books

Vatzlav Paprback

Applause Theatre & Cinema Books

Les émigrés: [théâtre] (French Edition)

A. Michel

OEUVRES COMPLETES VOL 2 THEATRE 1 (0002)

NOIR BLANC

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