This "Joc d'atzar" or A Collection of Thirty-Four Short Stories is, well, 34 short stories, not longer than 5 pages, as short as half. It's a quite short book, just over 100 pages.
As with every collection, some stories are better than others, and at 34, it kind of becomes repetitive after a while. Mrożek is not bad in his ironic comments about Communism, bureaucracy and human nature, but you can just write so many stories about the same stuff without starting to become like the old guy at the family parties who cannot shut up. As so, this book is better read a story at a time, maybe one or two per day. Read in that way it becomes more fun and interesting, and you can enjoy more his acid commentaries.
The best stories I thought where at the beginning of the collection, and one or two of the last are a little bit lame, but if you read the above paragraph, it may had to do more with me getting tired than the stories being better or worse. I thought, though, that this collection was better than the one that makes up "The tree".
An interesting writer. But a little bit repetitive and close-minded.
6,5