An award-winning writer and a candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature, Ryszard Kapuściński (1932–2007) was a celebrated Polish journalist and author. Praised for the lengths to which he would go to get a story, Kapuściński gained an extraordinary knowledge of the major global events of the second half of the twentieth century and shared it with his diverse audience.The first posthumous monograph on the writer’s life and work, Ryszard Kapuściński confronts the mixed re...

Ryszard Kapuściński’s life, work, reception, and legacy, through his literary reportage.An award-winning writer and a candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature, Ryszard Kapuściński (1932-2007) was a celebrated Polish journalist and author. Praised for the lengths to which he would go to get a story, Kapuściński gained an extraordinary knowledge of the major global events of the second half of the twentieth century and shared it with his diverse audience.The first posthumous monograph on...

Ce livre est la première monographie qui tente de présenter l’œuvre de Ryszard Kapuścinski dans toute sa diversité intrinsèque (journalisme d’opinion, correspondances de presse, reportages, récits, notes essayistiques, poésie, photographie) et dans toute sa durée, soit plus de cinquante ans　: des premiers poèmes au volume posthume Lapidarium VI. Les auteurs considèrent Kapuścinski avant tout comme un écrivain qui s’est incarné dans la figure d’un journaliste-voyageur et qui, grâce...