Ryszard Kapuściński
Subtitle: a life
By: Artur Domoslawski ; translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Contributors: Lloyd-Jones, Antonia
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Brooklyn, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9781844678587; 9781844679188
Subjects: Journalists; Biography
Work titles: Kapuściński non-fiction
Description: "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 Kapuściński 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 Domosławski shines a new light on the personal relationships of this intensely charismatic, deeply private man, examining the intractable issue at the heart of Kapuściński’s life and work: the relationship and tension between journalism and literature."--p. [2] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.