by Ryszard Kapuscinski · Editorial Anagrama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433973306
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«Viajes con Heródoto» is the travel book and chronicle by Ryszard Kapuściński, published by Editorial Anagrama in paperback (312 pages, in Spanish).
In the fifties, Polish reporter Ryszard Kapuściński travels his country without crossing the border, until his newspaper sends him to India with Herodotus’s Histories. That reading marks his formation. The work blends reportage, ethnography and travel, and sees in Herodotus the first correspondent and a mirror for understanding other cultures.
First edition published in April 2008. Number 474 of Anagrama’s Compactos collection, translated by Agata Orzeszek Sujak.
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".
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