Artur Domoslawski

Ryszard Kapuscinski


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      Ryszard KapuŚciński

      A Life

      ARTUR DOMOSŁAWSKI

      Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones

      This English-language edition first published by Verso 2012

      © Verso 2012

      Translation © Antonia Lloyd-Jones 2012

      First published as Kapuściński non-fiction

      © Świat Książki 2010

      All rights reserved

      The moral rights of the author have been asserted

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      Epub ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-918-8

      British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Domoslawski, Artur, 1967-

      [Kapuscinski non-fiction. English]

      Ryszard Kapuscinski : a life / Artur Domoslawski ; translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones.

      p. cm.

      Includes bibliographical references and index.

      ISBN 978-1-84467-858-7 (hardback) -- ISBN 978-1-84467-918-8 (ebook)

      1. Kapuscinski, Ryszard. 2. Journalists--Poland--Biography. I. Lloyd-Jones, Antonia. II. Title.

      PN5355.P62K36313 2012

      070.92--dc23

      [B]

      2012012437

      Typeset in Bembo by Hewer UK Ltd, Edinburgh

      Printed in the US by Maple Vail

      Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life.

      Gabriel García Márquez to his biographer, Gerald Martin

      All sorts of biographies enjoy great popularity (every bookshop has a large, separate biographical section). It implies a sort of self-defence reaction against the advancing anonymity of the world. People still have a need to commune (if only through reading) with someone specific, an individual who has a name, a face, habits and desires. The appeal of biography also comes from the fact that people would like to see how this great person achieved greatness, they’d like to get an inside look at his style.

      Ryszard Kapuściński, Lapidarium

      The merit of writers’ biographies continues to be disputed. For some, the work is all we need to know. Others say they love the books, so they want to know more about the people who wrote them. Then there is always the possibility that the life will throw light on the books and deepen our understanding of them.

      Ian Buruma, writer and journalist

      The lives of writers are a legitimate subject of inquiry; and the truth should not be skimped. It may well be, in fact, that a full account of a writer’s life might in the end be more a work of literature and more illuminating – of a cultural or historical moment – than the writer’s books.

      V. S. Naipaul, writer, Nobel Prize winner, 2001

      A biography can never fully reveal the source of its subject. The commonplace that a biographer has found the ‘key’ to a person’s life is implausible. People are too complicated and inconsistent for this to be true. The best a biographer can hope for is to illuminate aspects of a life and seek to give glimpses of the subject, and that way tell a story.

      Patrick French, biographer of V. S. Naipaul

      Contents

       Introduction: The Smile

       1 Daguerreotypes

       2 Pińsk: The Beginning

       3 War

       4 Legends 1: His Father and Katyń

       5 Inspired by Poetry, Storming Heaven

       6 Lapidarium 1: The Poet

       7 On the Construction Site of Socialism

       8 Lapidarium 2: Lance Corporal Kapuściński

       9 On the Construction Site of Socialism, Continued

       10 Alicja, Maminek, Zojka

       11 Alicja, Maminek, Zojka

       12 The Third World: A Clash and a Beginning

       13 In ‘Rakowski’s Gang’

       14 Legends 2: Sentenced to Death by Firing Squad

       15 In ‘Rakowski’s Gang’, Continued

       16 Life in Africa

       17 Objects of Fascination: The African Icons

       18 Life in Africa, Continued

       19 In the Corridors of Power

       20 Lapidarium 3: The Reporter as Politician

       21 On the Trail of Che Guevara

       22 Legends 3: Che, Lumumba, Allende

       23 On the Trail of Che Guevara, Continued

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