by Ryszard Kapuscinski · Editorial Anagrama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433972835
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«El Imperio» is Ryszard Kapuściński's book of reportage on the Soviet Union, published by Editorial Anagrama in paperback (360 pages, in Spanish).
The book brings together the reportage from Ryszard Kapuściński's travels through the Soviet Union between 1989 and 1991, as the regime was collapsing. The author visits fifteen republics and talks with citizens who tell him about their experiences and the terror they are trying to escape; he also recalls his earliest contacts with the USSR (1939-1967).
Part of Anagrama's Compactos collection (no. 429). Translated by Agata Orzeszek Sujak; original title: Imperium.
For readers of contemporary history, journalism and travel literature interested in the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
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".
