by Ryszard Kapuscinski · Editorial Anagrama · tapa dura · ISBN 9788433925565
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«Lapidarium IV» is the literary essay by Ryszard Kapuscinski, published by Editorial Anagrama in hardcover (160 pages, in Spanish).
In 1982, Ryszard Kapuscinski began jotting down loose impressions and reflections on the present age and the human condition. Gathered years later, these notes on lived experience become a fragmentary, impressionistic portrait of his time. It is the fourth installment of the Lapidarium series, published in Poland.
This work is volume 56 of Anagrama's Crónicas collection, in its first edition, translated by Agata Orzeszek Sujak.
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".
