by Ryszard Kapuscinski · Editorial Anagrama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433902412
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In 'Ébano', Ryszard Kapuściński offers us an immense fresco of Africa, the result of a deep immersion in the continent. Unlike special envoys, Kapuściński focuses on the details that mark the African reality: the haste of decolonization, the constant movement of people, and the mixture of the ephemeral with the ancestral. His chronicles, imbued with the essence of the continent, question Western values and invite us to reflect on the complexity of Africa.
Ryszard Kapuściński was a Polish journalist, photographer and author. He received many prestigious awards and was considered a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Kapuściński's personal journals in book form attracted both controversy and admiration for blurring the conventions of reportage with the allegory and magical realism of literature. He was the Communist-era Polish Press Agency's only correspondent in Africa during decolonization, and also worked in South America and Asia. Between 1956 and 1981 he reported on 27 revolutions and coups, until he was fired because of his support for the pro-democracy Solidarity movement in his native country. He was celebrated by other practitioners of the genre. The acclaimed Italian reportage-writer Tiziano Terzani, Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, and Chilean writer Luis Sepúlveda accorded him the title "Maestro".
