Slawomir Mrozek: The Elephant (Penguin Modern Classics) [2010] paperback Condition:New 'If you've never read it

'If you've never read it

with its encyclopedic length and organization and the intense jostle of its ideas

Between the paroxysms of two world wars

and decides to make her own pilgrimage there

to crush the world's mightiest hero and establish its supremacy over all creation

Slawomir Mrozek: The Elephant (Penguin Modern Classics) [2010] paperback Condition:New 'If you've never read itThe 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