THE ELEPHANT jellemzők

The Elephant (1957) is Slawomir Mrozek\'s award-winning collection of hilarious and unnerving short stories, satirizing 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...