by Ryszard Kapuscinski · Editorial Anagrama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433925145
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«El Emperador» is Ryszard Kapuściński's chronicle of Emperor Haile Selassie, published by Editorial Anagrama in paperback (206 pages, in Spanish).
Kapuściński reconstructs Haile Selassie's imperial court from interviews with former dignitaries and servants, portraying an autocracy sustained by flattery and isolation. The accounts alternate between the tragic and the grotesque, and the whole works as a chronicle of Ethiopia before the 1974 revolution and as a parable about absolute power.
Number 14 in Anagrama's Crónicas collection, translated by Agata Orzeszek Sujak and Roberto Mansberger Amorós from the Polish original Cesarz (1978).
Readers of narrative journalism, Ethiopian history, and reflections on absolute power.
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".
