Ryszard Kapuściński : biography of a writer / Beata Nowacka and Zygmunt Ziątek ; translated by Lindsay Davidson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nowacka, Beata, author.

Ziątek, Zygmunt, author.

Standardized Title:

Ryszard Kapuściński English

Language:

English

Polish

Subjects (All):

Kapuściński, Ryszard.

Kapuściński, Ryszard--Criticism and interpretation.

Journalists--Poland--Biography.

Journalists.

Authors, Polish--Biography.

Authors, Polish.

Poland.

Genre:

Biographies.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

x, 364 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Montreal : Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2023]

Summary:

"An award-winning writer and a candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature, Ryszard Kapu[ciDski (1932-2007) was a celebrated Polish journalist and author. Praised for the lengths to which he would go to get a story, Kapu[ciDski 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 Kapu[ciDski confronts the mixed reception of Kapu[ciDski'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 Kapu[ciDski reported on twenty-seven revolutions and coups. They argue that the journalistic tradition is not in conflict with Kapu[ciDski'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 Kapu[ciDski's achievements, Nowacka and Ziątek 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. Kapu[ciDski'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."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Nowacka, Beata. Ryszard Kapuściński. English. Ryszard Kapuściński.

ISBN:

9780228014485

0228014484

OCLC:

1309128889