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The King of the Ants: Mythological Essays

by Zbigniew Herbert · 1975

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This New Prose collection from the late Zbigniew Herbert, available for the first time in English, is a retelling of myths and tales "simple and as old as the world" ("Endymion"). Hybrids of the short story and the essay, the eleven pieces in The King of the Ants present Herbert's very different "apocryphal" views of the mythological past.

Genre
mythologymyths and folklore
Setting
1970sPoland
Audience
adult
Length
short · 154 pages
Form
essayspoetry

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