Ryszard Kapuscinski: A Life

The life and work of Ryszard Kapuscinski was dangerously bold and deeply enigmatic. This controversial biography opens up the secrets and contradictions of this globally renowned Polish journalist and writer. Artur Domoslawski travels the globe, following in Kapuscinski’s footsteps, delving into his private conflicts and anxieties and discovering the relationships that were the catalyst for his unique style of ‘literary reportage’. The result is a compelling and uncompromising portrait of a conflicted and brilliant individual.

Domosławski, Artur

Humor & Entertainment

Verso

Reporting from such varied locations as postcolonial Africa, revolutionary Iran, the military dictatorships of Latin America and Soviet Russia, the Polish journalist and writer Ryszard Kapuscinski was one of the most influential eyewitness journalists of the twentieth century. During the Cold War, he was a dauntless investigator as well as a towering literary talent, and books such as The Emperor and Travels with Herodotus founded the new genre of ‘literary reportage’. It was an achievement that brought him global renown, not to mention the uninvited attentions of the CIA. In this definitive biography, Artur Domoslawski shines a new light on the personal relationships of this intensely charismatic, deeply private man, examining the intractable issue at the heart of Kapuscinski’s life and work: the relationship and tension between journalism and literature. In researching this book, Domos?awski, himself an award-winning foreign correspondent, enjoyed unprecedented access to Kapuscinski’s private papers. The result traces his mentor’s footsteps through Africa and Latin America, delves into files and archives that Kapuscinski himself examined, and records conversations with the people that he talked to in the course of his own investigations. Ryszard Kapuscinski is a meticulous, riveting portrait of a complex man of intense curiosity living at the heart of dangerous times.

Ryszard Kapuscinski: Leben und Wahrheit eines "Jahrhundertreporters"

Berliner Buchverlagsges

Kapuscinski non-fiction (Polish Edition)

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Wielka Litera

Wykluczeni

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Tres años después de la muerte de Kapuscinski -el hombre que elevó el reportaje a la categoría de literatura, que diseccionó como nadie los mecanismos del poder y que se convirtió en la voz de los excluidos-, Artur Domoslawski aborda la tarea de desentrañar las claves que rodearon la vida y la obra del célebre reportero polaco: sus relaciones con el régimen comunista, los avatares de su vida privada y, sobre todo, hasta qué punto son fiables los datos que Kapuscinski presenta como ciertos en sus obras. Sin embargo, Domoslawski entiende que enterrar al mito no es la función de un biógrafo. Como hombre que le conoció bien, como periodista que había vivido experiencias similares en la Polonia comunista y que siempre admiró al maestro, sabe cuál es su cometido: revelar al hombre con todos sus claroscuros, una tarea nada sencilla en la que los límites entre realidad y ficción se difuminan, y transmitirnos el mismo mensaje que Kapuscinski se esforzó por hacernos llegar durante toda su vida: que sin entender el contexto de una existencia, nadie tiene derecho a juzgarla.

Kapuscinski non-fiction: El hombre, el reportero y su época

Galaxia Gutenberg, S.L.

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