Ryszard Kapuściński fu un maestro della parola, noto per i suoi profondi resoconti dal mondo in via di sviluppo. Ha dato vita alle realtà di guerre, colpi di stato e rivoluzioni, immergendosi nel cuore dei tumulti globali. La sua scrittura è caratterizzata da un profondo umanesimo e dalla capacità di catturare l'essenza drammatica di eventi complessi. Il lavoro di Kapuściński offre ai lettori una prospettiva vivida ed empatica su terre lontane e sulle lotte universali dell'umanità.
Ryszard Kapuscinski si cala nel continente africano e se ne lascia sommergere, rifuggendo tappe obbligate, stereotipi e luoghi comuni. Va ad abitare nelle case dei sobborghi più poveri, brulicanti di scarafaggi e schiacciate dal caldo, si ammala di malaria cerebrale; rischia la morte per mano di un guerriero. Kapuscinski non perde mai lo sguardo lucido e penetrante del reporter e non rinuncia all'affabulazione del grande narratore.
Enables readers to journey across the globe and through history, exploring ideas and worlds that are frightening, ruthless, and cruel in unique ways.
'The most passionate, engaging and historically profound account of the Soviet empire that I have read.' - Michael Ignatieff
Shah of Shahs depicts the final years of the Shah in Iran, and is a compelling meditation on the nature of revolution and the devastating results of fear. Here, Kapuscinski describes the tyrannical monarch, who, despite his cruel oppression of the Iranian people, sees himself as the father of a... číst celé
Part diary and part reportage, The Soccer War is a remarkable chronicle of war in the late twentieth century. Between 1958 and 1980, working primarily for the Polish Press Agency, Kapuscinski covered twenty-seven revolutions and coups in Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. Here, with characteristic cogency and emotional immediacy, he recounts the stories behind his official press dispatches—searing firsthand accounts of the frightening, grotesque, and comically absurd aspects of life during war. The Soccer War is a singular work of journalism.
This is a very personal book, about being alone and lost'. In 1975 Kapuscinski's employers sent him to Angola to cover the civil war that had broken out after independence. For months he watched as Luanda and then the rest of the country collapsed into a civil war that was in the author's words 'sloppy, dogged and cruel'. In his account, Kapuscinski demonstrates an extraordinary capacity to describe and to explain the individual meaning of grand political abstractions.
Haile Selassie, King of Kings, Elect of God, Lion of Judah, His Most Puissant Majesty and Distinguished Highness the Emperor of Ethiopia, reigned from 1930 until he was overthrown by the army in 1974. While the fighting still raged, Ryszard Kapuscinski, Poland's leading foreign correspondent, traveled to Ethiopia to seek out and interview Selassie's servants and closest associates on how the Emperor had ruled and why he fell. This "sensitive, powerful. . .history" (The New York Review of Books) is Kapuscinski's rendition of their accounts—humorous, frightening, sad, grotesque—of a man living amidst nearly unimaginable pomp and luxury while his people teetered between hunger and starvation.
The traveler-reporter finds an even stranger and more exotic society in his own home of post-War Poland than in any of the distant lands he has visited
Just out of university in 1955, Kapuscinski, the novice reporter, told his editor he'd like to go abroad, dreaming no farther than Czechoslovakia. Instead he was sent to India. Kapuściński gives us the non-Western world through virginal Western eyes.
The best of Kapuscinski's published poems, offered for the first time in English.