Verlag | Penguin UK |
Auflage | 2010 |
Seiten | 176 |
Format | 19,8 cm |
Gewicht | 140 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
Reihe | Penguin Modern Classics |
ISBN-10 | 0141193042 |
EAN | 9780141193045 |
Bestell-Nr | 14119304EA |
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.
Rezension:
Extraordinary . . . Mrozek's brief fables are something like Kafka's stories, but they're funnier Spectator