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The Elephant.  (Translated from the Polish by Konrad Syrop).

The Elephant. (Translated from the Polish by Konrad Syrop).

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The Elephant. (Translated from the Polish by Konrad Syrop).

by MROZEK, Slawomir.:

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London: Macdonald, 1962.. 1st British edition. "This curious and wonderful little book is a brilliant, razor-sharp, ironical satire of totalitarian practices...Mrozek disarms the Dictatorship of the Proletariat by laughing at it, but that is only because he happens to live in Communist Poland...And the crowning irony is that officials of the Polish State Cultural Review awarded 'The Elephant' the annual Literary Prize for 1957." Pp.176, occasional illustrations by Daniel Mroz, gift message to front free endpaper, minor toning to endpapers. Black cloth, dustwrapper (designed by Rupert Smith) has toning to edges with chipping to top of spine. VG/G+.

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Bookseller
Chilton Books GB (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #
48432
Title
The Elephant. (Translated from the Polish by Konrad Syrop).
Author
MROZEK, Slawomir.:
Book Condition
Used
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
London: Macdonald, 1962.
Weight
0.00 lbs
Keywords
slawomir mrozek elephant polish political satire humour totalitarianism absurdity poland communism short stories daniel mroz marxism humour 49861
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Dustwrapper
Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
Cloth
"Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Spine
The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Chipping
A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
Edges
The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...

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