Ryszard Kapuscinski - Biography of a Writer (Hardcover)

An award-winning writer and a candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature, Ryszard Kapuscinski (1932-2007) was a celebrated Polish journalist and author. Praised for the lengths to which he would go to get a story, Kapuscinski 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 Kapuscinski confronts the mixed reception of Kapuscinski's tendency to merge the conventions of reportage with the artistry of literature. Beata Nowacka and Zygmunt Ziatek 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 Kapuscinski reported on twenty-seven revolutions and coups. They argue that the journalistic tradition is not in conflict with Kapuscinski's meditations on the deep meanings of these events, and that his first-person involvement in his text was not an indulgence detracting from his journalistic adventures but a well-thought-out conception of eyewitness testimony, developing the moral and philosophical message of the stories. Exploring the whole of Kapuscinski's achievements, Nowacka and Ziatek identify a constant tension between a strictly journalistic position and what in Poland is called literary reportage, located on the border between journalism and artistic prose. Kapuscinski's desire and dedication to make more of journalistic writing is the driving force behind the excellence and readability that have made his legendary books so controversial - and so widely celebrated.

General

Imprint:	McGill-Queen's University Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Release date:	2023
Authors:	Beata Nowacka • Zygmunt Ziatek
Translators:	Lindsay Davidson
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	392
ISBN-13:	978-0-228-01448-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Literary Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > From 1900 > Reportage & collected journalism Books > Biography > Literary
LSN:	0-228-01448-4
Barcode:	9780228014485

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