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Born in the vicinity of Krakow, the son of a mailman, Mrozek began his career in that city as a cartoonist and an author of short humorous articles for the newspapers. Around 1956, he revealed himself as a master of the satirical short story. His fierce, absurd humor makes use of comic techniques from satirical works of modern Polish literature, from Boy's Little Words to Galczynski's Green Goose. The result is akin to Gogol's achievement in stories like The Nose. The vagaries of the bureaucratic Establishment, together with the specifically Polish mixture of industrialization and backwardness, of sophistication and parochialism, have been a boon to Mrozek's talent for concocting uncanny, surrealistic transformations of reality.
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