by Ryszard Kapuscinski · Editorial Anagrama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433925770
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«Viajes con Heródoto» is Ryszard Kapuściński's travel chronicle, published by Editorial Anagrama in paperback (312 pages, in Spanish).
In the 1950s, a young Kapuściński travels through rural Poland and longs to cross the border; instead of Czechoslovakia, his newspaper sends him to India. He carries with him Herodotus's Histories, a work that will shape his formation as a reporter. The book combines personal memory with the reading of the Greek historian and moves between reportage, ethnography and travel literature.
It belongs to Anagrama's «Crónicas» collection, number 77; the Spanish translation is by Agata Orzeszek Sujak. The original Polish title is «Podróże z Herodotem».
For readers of narrative journalism and travel literature, as well as for those who want to approach the work of the Polish reporter.
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".
