Kapuscinski ryszard biography books

Domoslawski seems fascinated bygd moral gray areas—Kapuscinski neglected his family, had affairs, spied for Poland’s government, and maintai

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Ryszard Kapuściński’s life, work, reception, and legacy, through his literary reportage.

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An award-winning writer and a candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature, Ryszard Kapuściński (1932-2007) was a celebrated Polish journalist and author. Praised for the lengths to which he would go to get a story, Kapuściński gained an extraordinary knowledge of the major global events of the second half of the twentieth century and shared it with his diverse audience.

The first posthumous monograph on the writer’s life and work, Ryszard Kapuściński confronts the mixed reception of Kapuściński’s tendency to merge the conventions of reportage with the artistry of literature. Beata Nowacka and Zygmunt Ziątek discuss the writer’s accounts of the decolonization of Africa and his work in Asia and South America between 1956 and 1981, a period during which Kapuściński reported on twenty-seven revolutions and coups. They argue that the journalistic tradition is not in conflict with Kapuściński’s

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Books by Ryszard Kapuściński

The Shadow of the Sun
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4.39 avg rating — 16,012 ratings — published 1998 — 111 editions

Travels with Herodotus
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4.05 avg rating — 9,125 ratings — published 2004 — 96 editions

The Emperor: Downfall of An Autocrat
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4.09 avg rating — 8,690 ratings — published 1978 — 96 editions

Imperium
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4.36 avg rating — 7,299 ratings — published 1992 — 81 editions

Shah of Shahs
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4.23 avg rating — 7,429 ratings — published 1982 — 77 editions

Another Day of Life
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4.18 avg rating — 5,646 ratings — published 1976 — 61 editions

The Soccer War
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4.18 avg rating — 4,311 ratings — published 1969 — 74 editions

The Other
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3.71 avg rating — 1,692 ratings — published 2006 — 38 editions

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3.89 avg rating — 1,254