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	Ryszard Kapuściński - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Starting in the mid-1970s, Kapuscinski has published books of increasing literary craftsmanship characterized by sophisticated narrative technique, psychological portraits of characters, a wealth of stylization and metaphor and unusual imagery that serves as means of interpreting the perceived world.
		Kapuscinski is fascinated not only by exotic worlds and people, but also by books: he approaches foreign countries first through literature, spending months reading before each trip.
		This tendency to process private adventures into a greater social synthesis has made Kapuscinski an eminent thinker, and the volumes of his ongoing Lapidarium series are a fascinating record of the shaping of a reporter's observations into philosophical reflections on the world and people.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ryszard_Kapuscinski (282 words)

	culturebase.net \| The international artist database \| Ryszard Kapuscinski
		Ryszard Kapuscinski, born in 1932 and nominated "Polish Reporter of the Century" in 1999 describes his self styled genre as "literary reportage" employing literary techniques as a means of reporting.
		Ryszard Kapuscinski was born in the Polish village of Pinsk, now in Belarus, from where he fled to Warsaw with his family at the onset of the war.
		Kapuscinski's most famous book, the reportage-novel, 'The Emperor' about the decline of Haile Selassie's anachronistic regime in Ethiopia was published in 1978 and owed its huge success in Poland to the fact that the account of the emperor and his court was read as a parable of the Central Committee under Gierek.
	www.culturebase.net /artist.php?863 (1156 words)

	Imperium:KAPUSCINSKI, RYSZARD:0679426191:eCampus.com
		Between 1989 and 1991, Kapuscinski made a series of extended journeys through the disintegrating Soviet empire, and his account of these forms the heart of the book.
		Bringing the book to a close is a collection of notes which, Kapuscinski writes, "arose in the margins of my journeys" - reflections on the state of the ex-USSR and on his experience of having watched its fate unfold "on the screen of a television set...
		It is this "schizophrenic perception in two different dimensions" that enabled Kapuscinski to discover and illuminate the most telling features of a society in dire turmoil.
	www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=0679426191&referrer=yah04 (117 words)

	The Shadow of the Sun - Ryszard Kapuscinski
		Kapuscinski's vision and his knack for a kind of crystallized descriptive writing have never been on better display (.....) The book is a marvel of humane, sorrowful and lucid observation.
		Kapuscinski is a white man, a fact that affects all his interactions with the locals.
		Kapuscinski himself continues to seem astounded by the overwhelming difficulties he encounters, and the endurance of the people.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/kapuscr/hebanu.htm (1994 words)

	Another Day of Life:KAPUSCINSKI, RYSZARD:0375726292:eCampus.com
		Ryszard Kapuscinski, one of the twentieth century's preeminent journalists, is renowned for his narratives of the Third World, which transcend reportage and enter the realm of literature.
		Another Day of Life is Kapuscinski's dramatic account of the three months he spent in Angola in 1975 at the beginning of its decades-long civil war.
		When even the dogs abandoned by the Europeans leave, Kapuscinski decides to go to the front, where the wrong salutation could cost your life and where young soldiers -- from Cuba, Russia, South Africa, Portugal -- are fighting a war with global repercussions.
	www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=0375726292&referrer=yah04 (126 words)

	Alibris: Ryszard Kapuscinski
		Kapuscinski's unorthodox approach and his profound respect for the people he meets challenge conventional understandings of modern Africa.
		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 virtually overnight.
		Kapuscinski's genius writes of the snows and the steppes of Siberia, of the doomed Aral Sea and Kiev.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Ryszard_Kapuscinski (308 words)

	village voice > books > The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski by Aleksandar Hemon
		Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa for the first time in 1957, as a correspondent for the Polish Press Agency, returning whenever the opportunity arose.
		Kapuscinski reports on the dawn of Ghanaian independence; the unification of Tanganyika and Zanzibar into Tanzania; a 1966 coup d'état in Nigeria; the rise and demise of Idi Amin.
		In Kapuscinski's book, the Africans—"they" from the Englishman's rant—consist of crazed dictators, like Idi Amin and Charles Taylor, and, on the other hand, of simple people, like the truck driver Salim and Madame Diuf, who are patronizingly admired for being ordinary and keeping up their spirits in the hell of Africa.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0117/hemon.php (661 words)

	The Observer \| Review \| Review: The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski
		According to John le Carré, Kapuscinski is the 'conjurer extraordinary of modern reportage'.
		Kapuscinski is both a reporter and a writer of reportage.
		Kapuscinski once said that the best definition of his literary subject matter was the Latin phrase silva rerum, the forest of things, and that to 'capture the world, you have to penetrate it as completely as possible'.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,6903,500547,00.html (1300 words)

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		I was bent on going there.” Catching the last military plane from Lisbon, Kapuscinski arrived in the West African nation’s capitol of Luanda in late ’75, as a conflict exploded in the former Portuguese colony between poet-politician Agostinho Neto’s Marxist-backed forces and tribal factions supported by South Africa and neighboring Zaire.
		However, though Kapuscinski is occasionally guilty of indulging in some purplish descriptions of Neto’s MPLA guerrillas (especially in a rhapsodic portrait of a doomed female commando named Carlotta), his work is usually clear-eyed and devoid of tub thumping.
		Kapuscinski is most interested here in locating the essence of Africa through its hostile climate, harsh terrain and deeply depressed, almost Paleolithic economic conditions.
	www.laweekly.com /ink/printme.php?eid=25254 (2325 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| Ryszard the lionheart
		In 1939, Kapuscinski's father was taken prisoner of war by the Russians, but he escaped from the camp before he was deported to Siberia.
		Kapuscinski wrote poems, had a young man's ambition to see the world, but his imagination, at that time, stretched no further than neighbouring Czechoslovakia.
		Kapuscinski's Africa began in 1958 in Ghana and in hope, listening to the revolutionary words of Kwame Nkrumah, the first in a long line of independence leaders whose careers he saw begin in electric optimism and often end in infamy or despair or violent death.
	books.guardian.co.uk /departments/politicsphilosophyandsociety/story/0,6000,493235,00.html (1984 words)

	The Soccer War (Vintage International): Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The book's final essay, in which Kapuscinski, crouched by a fire in Ghana, contemplates his readers at home and the friends he sits with, is as fine a summary of the inherent contradictions of the calling as has ever been written.
		Kapuscinski is a Polish reporter who worked extensively in war zones in Africa and South America, and most of this book is about his experiences in Africa in the 1960's.
		Kapuscinski evokes Africa well, and is very good at describing people, but I now felt that he was directing too much attention to his own experiences/emotions (and bravery?), instead of just describing situations.
	www.usaflightinsurance.com /books-reviewed/0679738053.html (2199 words)

	Ryszard Kapuscinski
		Kapuscinski international attention, was an account of the decline and collapse of the reign of Haile Selassie, written from the perspective of palace retainers, including minor princes and such attendants as the keeper of the royal lap dogs.
		Kapuscinski's version, the story of the Church of Christ the Saviour in Moscow, built by the czars in 45 years and demolished by Stalin in four months, is a chilling evocation of Bolshevik despotism.
		Kapuscinski's Russians, except for a few dissident intellectuals held up as a rebuke to the nation, are willfully ignorant, joyless, expansionist in their instincts, servile in their acceptance of tyranny.
	www.arlindo-correia.com /080601.html (5612 words)

	BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Africa, a Mosaic of Mystery and Sorrow - New York Times
		Kapuscinski's vision and his knack for a kind of crystallized descriptive writing have never been on better display than in his new book, ''The Shadow of the Sun,'' which consists of densely eventful vignettes from his 40 years of experience in Africa.
		Kapuscinski is interested less in mainstream political commentary than in the telling details, the way, for example, that the rulers' houses are ingeniously placed to catch the breeze.
		Kapuscinski never loses his affection for the people whose lives he witnesses or his awe at the magnificence of the African spectacle, its oceanic size and variety, the beauty of its landscapes, the heavy weight of its patience and its spirituality.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9403E7DA133BF932A25756C0A9679C8B63 (757 words)

	Granta: 'An Interview by Bill Buford' by Ryszard Kapuscinski
		Kapuscinski: You had to be; you had to be because the job required it and because, working for a poor agency, your greatest resource was never money—it was information: contacts: who you knew, what you knew.
		Kapuscinski: It was in the nineteenth century that faith in science invited an analogous faith in history: that history had laws, that it could be known, that it followed a pattern.
		Kapuscinski: Ah, you have just touched upon an important point in my thinking.Twenty years ago, I was in Africa, and this is what I saw: I went from revolution to coup d'Ètat, from one war to another; I witnessed, in effect, history in the making, real history, contemporary history, our history.
	www.granta.com /extracts/190 (3757 words)

	The Shadow of the Sun: Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa in 1957, at the beginning of the end of colonial rule -- the "sometimes dramatic and painful, sometimes enjoyable and jubilant" rebirth of a continent.
		Ryszard Kapuscinksi, the Polish journalist who seems to have regularly escaped death on his many of his assignments, takes what might kindly be called liberties with the reality and wins acclaim.
		Ryszard Kapuscinski is a not an historian, a political scientist, or a sociologist - he is a teller of tales, and a master of language.
	www.usaflightinsurance.com /books-reviewed/0679454918.html (7327 words)

	Santa Monica Mirror: THE SUN ALSO RISES IN ‘THE SHADOW’
		Considering all the brutality and poverty that is recorded here, it is significant that Kapuscinski chose to bracket them with an account of the delirious independence celebrations in Ghana in 1958 and one of an almost-mystical occurrence in Tanzania.
		Kapuscinski was at a Christmas Eve party at a national park attended by government ministers, generals, and clan chiefs.
		But if Kapuscinski can write that after all the horror and death he has witnessed, then perhaps a brighter day is coming.
	www.smmirror.com /volume2/issue50/the_sun_also.asp (507 words)

	II Journal: An Interview with Ryszard Kapuscinsk: Writing about Suffering
		Kapuscinski: No, but of course the authorities knew what it was about, and so it had a very small circulation, and it was forbidden to turn it into a film or a play.
		Kapuscinski: No, we all cooperated, all of us, East and West, regardless of country, because the working conditions were really terrible.
		Kapuscinski: There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience.
	www.umich.edu /~iinet/journal/vol6no1/kapuschinski.html (2133 words)

	Books : Imperium (Vintage International) at Connected Globe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Ryszard has a poetic ability to delve underneath the surface of geopolitics and reveal stories at a human level.
		Kapuscinski approaches the book from a human perspective rather than from a structural/physical geographic angle.
		But Ryszard Kapuscinski's Imperium is superior to everything else I have read and imagined.
	metrotel.co.uk /cgi-local/amazon/cgapf.cgi?Operation=ItemLookup&ItemId=067974780X&templates=millennium (452 words)

	Granta: Ryszard Kapuscinski
		Ryszard Kapuscinski was born in 1932 in Pinsk in eastern Poland.
		During the year the Berlin Wall came down, as the empire convulsed and died, Kapuscinski talked to hundreds of ordinary people about their extraordinary lives and the terror from which they were emerging.
		Ryszard Kapuscinski talks to Bill Buford about being Poland's only foreign correspondent, the art of reporting and what it is like to witness 27 wars in 50 countries.
	www.granta.com /authors/114 (315 words)

	Column: 8 July 2002 - The Shadow of Human Relations
		The reader cannot help but recall that Kapuscinski's descriptions of the poor in Uganda have much in common with his descriptions of the poor in Cameroon or Ethiopia.
		Kapuscinski's focus on the "average" African - and on these feelings - is what makes the book so moving, funny, and sad.
		Yet it is precisely for this reason that Kapuscinski's book is worth reading: to gain a better understanding of the importance of such small steps for so many human lives.
	www.thetruthasiseeit.com /Archive/2002/2002_07_08.html (430 words)

	The Sheila Variations: Kapuscinski Archives
		Kapuscinski grew up in Poland, and some of his first memories are of Germany's invasion of his country (he writes about this, very memorably, in his book on The Soviet Union, Imperium.
		Ryszard Kapuscinski, one of my own personal idols, has spent his entire life reporting on revolutions across the world.
		Kapuscinski rightly felt that the story of Mossadegh was one of the keys to the tragedy of what happened in Iran.
	www.sheilaomalley.com /archives/cat_kapuscinski.html (8173 words)

	Powell's Books - Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Kapuscinski’s rare humanity invests his subject with a dignity and grandeur unmatched by any other writer on the Third World, and his unique ability to discern the universal in the particular has never been more powerfully displayed than in this work.
		Kapuscinski presents this account of his experiences in Africa after colonial rule ended in 1957 and chronicles the disintegration of nations, political changes, all the way up to the arrival of AIDS and the departure of the white man.
		Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa in 1957, at the beginning of the end of colonial rule — the "sometimes dramatic and painful, sometimes enjoyable and jubilant" rebirth of a continent.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=92-0375413456-0 (646 words)

	Books at Random House of Canada - Author Spotlight: Ryszard Kapuscinski
		Famous for being in the wrong places at just the right times, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa in 1957, at the beginning of the end of colonial rule - the "sometimes dramatic and painful...
		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 literature.
		Ryszard Kapuscinski's last book, The Soccer War -a revelation of the contemporary experience of war -- prompted John le Carre to call the author "the conjurer extraordinary of modern reportage." Now, in Imperium, Kapuscinski gives us a work of equal emotional force and evocative power: a personal, brilliantly detailed exploration of...
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/author.pperl?authorid=15080 (205 words)

	12gauge.com 2002 - Book Review
		Ryszard Kapuscinski is renowned for his ability to transform fact into fable, for writing that is immediate, poetic and enduring.
		This is pure Kapuscinski, the particular, even the minor, as a fulcrum for storytelling.
		Indeed the man some have called the master journalist of the 20th century appears to have had an almost psychic ability to position himself in countries at those points when their history, and sometimes that of the world, has turned.
	www.12gauge.com /books_2001_shadow_sun.html (1597 words)

	LA Weekly: Features: WLS: Among the Wretched
		Kapuscinski himself alerts us to the possibility by observing that he "could embellish" the stuff with the roaches but decides against it because it "would not be true."
		Kapuscinski's material generates an apparently ad hoc aesthetic that draws on the chaos threatening to engulf him.
		To Kapuscinski it is not Manhattan or La Defense in Paris "that represent the highest achievement of human imagination" but a "monstrous" African shantytown -- an "entire city erected without a single brick, metal rod, or square metre of glass!" The torpor of the wretched is matched by a quite phenomenal resourcefulness.
	www.laweekly.com /ink/02/24/wls-dyer.php (1672 words)

	History’s witness Ryszard Kapuscinski \| BBC World Service
		Kapuscinski recalls the sense of optimism and enthusiasm in Ghana, the first South African country south of the Sahara to become liberated from colonisation.
		Kapuscinski calls his field of interest “The Third World”, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America, a vast area located outside of Europe and the rest of the developed world.
		Ryszard Kapuscinski was born in 1932, in Pinsk, now in Belarus.
	www.bbc.co.uk /worldservice/people/highlights/010817_kapuscinski.shtml (960 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Polish writer and foreign correspondent Ryszard Kapuscinski may be in the twilight of a golden career spanning more than 40 years but The Shadow of the Sun, an alternative record of his experiences of Africa and its stupefying white heat, is perhaps his finest hour.
		Drawn to the Developing World through an impoverished wartime upbringing, Kapuscinski arrived in Ghana in 1957 and was on hand to witness the tumultuous years in which colonial Africa was dismantled, resulting in born-again countries ripe for ransacking by despots.
		Whether it is describing the revolution in Zanzibar (where the author himself was taken hostage), the rise of the 3rd-rate officer Amin to president of Uganda or observations drawn from travelling amongst the ordinary villages and people the author allows neither sentimentalism nor predjudice to cloud a hugely entertaining and informative read.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0140292624 (1368 words)

	People - Ryszard Kapuscinski - Worldpress.org
		Kapuscinski, who was born in Poland in 1932, has spent his career chronicling political shifts in the Third World.
		But gradually, Kapuscinski realized that newspaper articles could not do justice to a complex political situation.
		Kapuscinski, who writes all his books in Warsaw, is driven above all by a need to understand corruption.
	www.worldpress.org /Europe/201.cfm (421 words)

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