Imperiet, Fotbollskriget och Ebenholts i en volym
1967 far Ryszard Kapuscinski, en av vår samtids mest hyllade utrikesreportrar, genom södra Sovjetunionen och möter en kokande, mångtydig värld med värdiga och stolta människor, trots den totalitära statens förtryck och hårda ko[...]
By "the conjuror extraordinary of modern portage" (John le Carre)--a personal, brilliantly detailed exploration of the almost unfathomably complex Soviet empire. "When a writer of Mr. Kapuscinski's genius writes of the snows and the steppes of Siberia, of the doomed Aral Sea and Kiev . . . no pictur[...]
"Only with the greatest of simplifications, for the sake of convenience, can we say Africa. In reality, except as a geographical term, Africa doesn't exist". Ryszard Kapuscinski has been writing about the people of Africa throughout his career. In a study that avoids the official routes, palaces and[...]
"Travels with Herodotus" records how Kapuscinski set out on his first forays - to India, China and Africa - with the great Greek historian constantly in his pocket. He sees Louis Armstrong in Khartoum, visits Dar-es-Salaam, arrives in Algiers in time for a coup when nothing seems to happen (but he s[...]
'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 'sl[...]
After the deposition of Haile Selassie in 1974, which ended the ancient rule of the Abyssinian monarchy, Ryszard Kapuscinski travelled to Ethiopia and sought out surviving courtiers to tell their stories. Here, their eloquent and ironic voices depict the lavish, corrupt world they had known - from t[...]
"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 na[...]
Ryszard Kapuscinski is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's preeminent journalists, demonstrating an almost mystical ability to discover the odd or overlooked and incorporating these sometimes surreal details into narratives that go beyond mere reportage and enter the realm of literatur[...]
In this book, the author brings a mythographer's perspective and novelist's virtuosity to bear on the overthrow of the last Shah of Iran, one of the most infamous of the United States' client-dictators, who resolved to transform his country into 'a second America in a generation', only to be toppled[...]
A Polish newspaper reporter looks back on the revolutions, coups, and wars he has covered in Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East[...]
In 1957, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa to witness the beginning of the end of colonial rule as the first African correspondent of Poland's state newspaper. From the early days of independence in Ghana to the ongoing ethnic genocide in Rwanda, Kapuscinski has crisscrossed vast distances pursu[...]
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 research[...]
In this distillation of his reflections accumulated from a lifetime of travel, Ryszard Kapuscinski takes a fresh look at the Western idea of the Other. Looking at this concept through the lens of his own encounters in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and considering its formative significance for his[...]
Ryszard Kapuscinski witnessed and reported on major wars, coups and revolutions as they happened throughout the developing world and global South. In this distillation of his reflections on a lifetime of travel, he takes a fresh look at the Western idea of the Other: the non-European or non-American[...]
From postcolonial Africa to revolutionary Iran, from the military dictatorships of Latin America to Soviet Russia, the Polish journalist and writer Ryszard Kapuscinski was one of the most dauntless and important eyewitness reporters of the twentieth century. In his committed journalism covering the [...]
In 1964, renowned reporter Ryszard Kapuscinski was appointed by the Polish Press Agency as its only foreign correspondent. He befriended Che Guevara in Bolivia, Salvador Allende in Chile and Patrice Lumumba in the Congo. This title is Kapuscinski's story, his eyewitness account of the emergence of t[...]
Features a report on the life and death of the Soviet superpower, from the entrance of Soviet troops into the author's hometown in Poland in 1939, through his journey across Siberia and the republics of Central Asia, to his wanderings over the vast Soviet lands in the years of the USSR's decline and[...]
Bringing together for the first time in English a selection of poems from his two previously published collections, Kapuscinski offers up a thoughtful, philosophical verse, often aphoristic in tone and structure, that is engaged politically, morally, and viscerally with the world around him. Transla[...]
Boka er den personlige beretningen om forfatterens reiser i det tidligere Sovjetunionen i tiden 1989 til 1991. Her skildrer han ørkenhete og arktisk kulde, og menneskene han møter på den 60.000 km. lange reisen; en gruvearbeider, en dikter, en bussjåfør, en billedhugger, barn og gamle.[...]
Boka er en krønike bestående av dokumentarstoff om kriger i vår tid. Mellom 1958 og 1980 dekket forfatteren 27 revolusjoner og kupp i Afrika, LatinAmerika og Midtøsten. Her gir han oss historien bak avisreportasjene og beskriver hvordan det er å befinne seg alene i et fremmed land i en fremmed [...]
Forfatteren tar deg med på en reise gjennom Afrika, fra 1957 til våre dager, fra Ghana til Eritrea, via Rwanda, Somalia, Liberia, Uganda og Zanzibar. Hans fortelling er en historie om avkolonialisering og korrupsjon, om barnesoldater og etnisk rensning. Den handler også om den afrikanske hverdage[...]
Reporterns självporträtt är en samling av Ryszard Kapuscinskis intervjuer, föreläsningar och samtal. Det har blivit en bok i fem scener där världsreportern Kapuscinski framträder i helfigur; interfolierat i texten finns intervjuares eller samtalspartners frågor som leder samtalet vidare och[...]
Keisari on yksi Ryszard Kapuscinskin pääteoksista ja myös yksi eniten käännettyjä puolalaisia kirjoja. Kapuscinski rakentaa tarkan kuvan itsevaltaisen Haile Selassien hovista ja sen elämästä - ilmiantojärjestelmästä, valtataistelusta, korruptiosta ja henkilöpalvonnasta."Keisari aloittaa[...]