The king of the ants
Subtitle: mythological essays
By: Zbigniew Herbert ; translated from the Polish by John and Bogdana Carpenter.
Contributors: Carpenter, John, 1936-; Carpenter, Bogdana.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Hopewell, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 85
Subjects: Herbert, Zbigniew -- Translations into English
Genres: Translations into English.
Description: 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.