by Ryszard Kapuscinski · Editorial Empúries · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497871686
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«Viatges amb Heròdot» is the travel and reportage book by Ryszard Kapuscinski, published by Editorial Empúries in paperback (256 pages, in Catalan).
Kapuscinski recalls his beginnings as a reporter in Poland in the 1950s and his journey to India with a copy of Herodotus. From that experience emerges a blend of reportage, ethnography and travel literature that alternates non-fiction stories with reflections on power, justice and the tension between the material and the spiritual.
Translation by Anna Rubió Rodon and Jerzy Slawomirski from the original Polish. Published on May 23, 2006. Part of the Anagrama/Empúries collection.
For readers of non-fiction, journalistic reportage and travel literature, as well as for those who want to approach Herodotus.
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".
