The eagle and the crow : modern Polish short stories /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	London ; New York : Serpent's Tail, 1996.
Description:	226 pages ; 20
Language:	English
Subject:	Short stories, Polish -- Translations into English. Polish fiction -- 20th century -- Translations into English. Polish fiction. Short stories, Polish. Translations.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2616374

Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title:	Modern Polish short stories
Other authors / contributors:	Halikowska, Teresa. Hyde, G. M. (George M.), 1941-
ISBN:	1852423560 9781852423568
Notes:	"A Paperback original."
Summary:	Twenty stories by Polish writers from the 1930s to the 1990s. The story, Dinner at Countess Kotlubay's by Witold Gombrowicz is a spoof on pre-war gentry, Spring in Poland by Slawomir Mrozek is political satire on Communism, while Tadeusz Borowski's This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen describes the routine of a World War II death camp.

Table of Contents:

Birds / Bruno Schulz
Tailors' Dummies / Bruno Schulz
The History of the Last Revolution in England / Aleksander Wat
Dinner at Countess Kotlubay's / Witold Gombrowicz
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen / Tadeusz Borowski
Searching for the Stars / Marek Hlasko
The Elephant / Slawomir Mrozek
Spring in Poland / Slawomir Mrozek
Fame / Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz
The Use of a Dragon / Stanislaw Lem
Cain, or an Interpretation of the Rule: To Each According to His Deserts / Leszek Kolakowski
Sarah, or the Conflict between the General and the Individual in Morality / Leszek Kolakowski
God, or Relative Mercy / Leszek Kolakowski
Poland Still? / Janusz Anderman
The Table / Pawel Huelle
In Front of the Mirror / Ida Fink
A Tale for Hollywood / Hanna Krall
The Touch / Stefan Chwin
The Tip / Tadeusz Rozewicz
The Third Shore / Natasza Goerke.

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