by Ryszard Kapuściński · Plon · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782259202527
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«Mes voyages avec Hérodote» is Ryszard Kapuściński's travel account, published by Plon in paperback (283 pages, in French).
Drawing on his own experiences as a correspondent, Kapuściński dialogues with Herodotus and turns the Greek historian's Histories into a guide for reflecting on travel, encounters between cultures, and writing. The result is a blend of journalistic reportage, personal memoir, and meditation on how to narrate the world.
Translated from Polish by Véronique Patte, this is the 2006 French edition in Plon's Feux croisés collection. The original, «Podróże z Herodotem», was published in 2004 and won the Nike Prize in 2005.
For readers of travel literature, narrative journalism, and reflections on history and writing.
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".
