Sławomir Mrożek

Tango

Satirical stories deal with superstition, bureaucracy, propaganda, appearance and reality, courtship, marriage, class structure, and education

The Elephant

Trzy dłuższe historie

Dziennik

Teatr: Policja. Męczeństwo Piotra Ohey'a. Indyk. Na pełnym morzu. Karol. Strip-tease. Zabawa. Kynolog w rozterce

This important play from one of Poland's most prominent playwrights has had successful stagings in San Francisco, Minneapolis, Washington, D.C., and New York. It takes place on a New Year's Eve in an unnamed country in the home of two immigrants. One is a political exile, an intellectual who gets his money from a mysterious source. The other is a ditch digger who is saving money to bring over his family.

The Emigrants

Leopold Tyrmand

listy 1965-1982

W emigracyjnym labiryncie

Wesele w Atomicach

Slon

Słoń i inne opowiadania

Le Martyre de Piotr Ohey. Mrozek. Slawomir4070.

Théâtre

Six Plays

Sawomir Mrozek

S3awomir Mro¿ek has reigned as the pre-eminent playwright and satirist of Eastern Europe for the past half-century. A sharp critic of all oppressive systems during the Cold War, he began his career as a young enthusiast for the new Communist regime in the early 1950s. It didn't take long, however, until he was deemed such a threat that his work was banned not only in his native Poland, but also in all Eastern bloc countries. After the fall of Communism, he returned home from self imposed exile in the West and was recognized as a major literary figure. This reissue of fourteen plays and ten short stories, along with a sampling of his capricious cartoons, affirms Mro¿ek's mastery of a wide spectrum of styles, and illustrates the development of his talent over the decades. From the vantage point of the twenty-first century, Mro¿ek's questioning of authority, his razor-sharp sense of the comic, and his spirit of contradiction seem as fresh, and as relevant, as ever.

Sławomir Mrożek

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