The Mrożek ReaderGrove Press, 2004 - 680 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. |
Spis treści
From the Darkness | 3 |
The Elephant | 5 |
The Trial | 8 |
Tiny | 12 |
The Lion | 15 |
The Monument | 17 |
The Background to an Era | 20 |
A Drummers Adventure | 23 |
Striptease OneAct Play 1961 | 135 |
Tango ThreeAct Play 1964 | 157 |
Vatzlav 1970 | 249 |
Emigrants OneAct Play 1974 | 321 |
The Hunchback FourAct Play 1975 | 397 |
Four OneAct Animal Plays | 507 |
Serenade 1976 | 533 |
Philosopher Fox 1977 | 559 |
Spring in Poland | 26 |
The Chronicle of a Besieged City | 29 |
The Police ThreeAct Play 1958 | 37 |
Out at Sea OneAct Play 1961 | 83 |
Charlie OneAct Play 1961 | 109 |
Aspiring Fox 1978 | 571 |
On Foot Two Acts and an Epilogue 1979 | 581 |
A Summers Day ThreeAct Play 1984 | 633 |
Bibliography | 680 |
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