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GLASS ELEPHANTS’ CITY is a literary trip to a little town somewhere in northeastern Poland. For the two main characters, Jan who is a doctor and another Jan who is a patient in hospital, this town is the centre of the universe. Their stories seem realistic at first but gradually they begin to move towards magic and the supernatural. The town appears to be a unique universe where new stories are being created and destroyed and where new universes are shaped. In the hospital the doctors do not use lancets but they treat with the power of imagination. The town is one great factory of happiness which takes the form of glass elephants which are being sent out to the world. One day though, it appears that nothing is really what it seems and the whole universe of the little town falls into pieces and its inhabitants have to build their lives anew.
Godot’s Shadow tells the story of the author’s fascination with Beckett and his attempts to understand the thought behind his work. It is a book about the ways in which literature can bring self-understanding and give meaning to one’s life, even if its message is one of doubt and despair; about the magic of literature and the vital role it can play.