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

Slawomir, Mrozek

Genre Fiction

Penguin Classics

Tango: A Play in Three Acts

GROVE PRESS

This comprehensive volume contains nine of the most important, most indispensable plays of the modern theatre. What Harold Clurman has done in this seminal collection is to create for us a portrait of the progress and turmoil of the twentieth century. Ranging from the eerie realism of Pinter's sinister "Birthday Party," to the absurd literalism of Ionesco's conformist city in "Rhinoceros," to the baroque fantasy world of Genet's brothel in "The Balcony," to the tragic hilarity of Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead," these nine plays, each entirely distinct, together form an incisive, compelling, and sometimes heartbreaking mosaic of our time.

Nine Plays of the Modern Theater: Waiting for Godot; The Visit; Tango; The Caucasian Chalk Circle; The Balcony; Rhinoceros; American Buffalo, et al

Eugène Ionesco

Samuel Beckett

Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Harold PINTER

jean-genet

David?Mamet

bertolt-brecht

tom-stoppard

Dramas & Plays

(Applause Books). Slawomir Mrozek, the Polish-born writer whose plays among them Tango and Vatzlav have earned him a reputation as one of Europe's most inventive new playwrights, has written three more plays which confirm his position as a master of modern satire whose concerns are as political as they are moral. In Striptease , two characters one an intellectual, the other an activist find themselves inside a room where a gigantic hand instructs them to remove their clothes until both act out an elaborate dance of rationalized submission. In Repeat Performance , a middle-aged man on an escapade with his son's young wife encounters a ghost from his own youth the charismatic political leader to whom he had sworn everlasting allegiance, and whose spirit has now returned to claim either the father or the son. The Prophets tells what happens when two prophets show up to fulfill the prophesies instead of just one.

Three Plays: Striptease, Repeat Performance, and the Prophets

Humor & Entertainment

Applause Theatre & Cinema Books

Baltazar: Autobiografia (Polish Edition)

Noir sur Blanc

Uwagi osobiste

Literackie

Tango

Baltazar. Autobiografia

Powiesci

Wydawnictwo Literackie

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