by Ryszard Kapuscinski · Editorial Anagrama · tapa dura · ISBN 9788433925329
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«El Imperio» is Ryszard Kapuściński's journalistic chronicle of the Soviet Union, published by Editorial Anagrama in hardback (360 pages, in Spanish).
Kapuściński travelled the Soviet Union between 1989 and 1991, as the empire was crumbling: he visited fifteen republics and spoke with hundreds of citizens about the terror they were leaving behind. The book also gathers his earlier journeys from 1939 to 1967 and the memories of anonymous witnesses before history erased them.
Part of Anagrama's Crónicas collection (no. 32). Translation by Agata Orzeszek Sujak; original title: Imperium (1992). Winner of the Leipzig Book Award in 1994.
A book for readers of narrative journalism, contemporary history and testimonies about life in the Soviet Union.
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".
