by Ryszard Kapuscinski · Feltrinelli · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788807721168
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«Giungla polacca» is a collection of reportage by Ryszard Kapuściński, published by Feltrinelli in paperback (177 pages, in Italian).
Reportage set in rural and provincial Poland during the postwar period and communism: elderly women returning to their lands, ferrymen, casual workers, engineers and soldiers. Kapuściński portrays everyday life and traces in it the search for a better life, love and hope. The story that gives the book its title takes place in Ghana.
Its original title is «Busz po polsku» (1962). It belongs to the Universale economica collection, number 2116.
For readers of narrative journalism and of twentieth-century Eastern European history.
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".
