Slawomir Mrozek: The Elephant (Penguin Modern Classics) [2010] paperback Condition:New Between the paroxysms of two

Between the paroxysms of two world wars

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

Kadou takes responsibility for the investigation of a break-in at one of their guilds

the vast empty grasslands of South America where the wind blows without end

an idealistic group of young rebels overthrows a genocidal regime in Kigali

Slawomir Mrozek: The Elephant (Penguin Modern Classics) [2010] paperback Condition:New Between the paroxysms of twoThe 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