Ryszard Kapuściński was een meester in woorden, bekend om zijn diepgaande verslagen uit de ontwikkelingslanden. Hij bracht de realiteit van oorlogen, staatsgrepen en revoluties tot leven, en dompelde zich onder in het hart van de wereldwijde onrust. Zijn schrijfstijl kenmerkt zich door diep menselijk medeleven en het vermogen om de dramatische essentie van complexe gebeurtenissen te vangen. Kapuściński's werk biedt lezers een levendig, empathisch perspectief op verre landen en de universele strijd van de mensheid.
Tells about the people of Africa throughout author's career. In a study that avoids the official routes, palaces and big politics, this book sets out to create an account of post-colonial Africa seen at once as a whole and as a location that wholly defies generalised explanations.
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.