Ryszard Kapuscinski : Biography of a Writer / Beata Nowacka and Zygmunt Ziatek ; translated by Lindsay Davidson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nowacka, Beata, author.

Ziątek, Zygmunt, author.

Contributor:

Davidson, Lindsay, translator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kapuściński, Ryszard--Criticism and interpretation.

Kapuściński, Ryszard.

Authors, Polish--Biography.

Authors, Polish.

Journalists--Poland--Biography.

Journalists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (393 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Montreal, Quebec : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2023]

Summary:

In the first posthumous monograph on Ryszard Kapuściński's life and work, Beata Nowacka and Zygmunt Ziątek confront the mixed reception of the writer's use of the Polish concept of literary reportage, located on the border between journalism and artistic prose, and identify this tension as the driving force behind Kapuściński's legacy.

Contents:

Cover

RYSZARD KAPUŚCIŃSKI

Title

Copyright

Contents

Translator's Note

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

1 "We were children of the war …"

2 "A metric of our generation"

3 Incidental Polish and African Tales

4 PAP Correspondent or Traveller?

5 On His Own Account

6 "I decided not to write like that anymore"

7 "Those were the days of constant emotion …": The Polish Revolution, 1980-1982

8 "REE-shard Kah-poosh-CHIN-skee": Kapuściński in English

9 "High time I started writing the next unwritten book"

10 Return to the Origins?

11 "He who created his own world will survive …"

Timeline

Bibliographical Note

Notes

Index of Names.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780228015567

0228015561

9780228015550

0228015553

OCLC:

1356575379