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"Il titolo di questa raccolta di reportage sui movimenti rivoluzionari a cavallo tra la fine degli anni sessanta e settanta richiama la figura del sacerdote colombiano vissuto tra i contadini dell''America latina e che, in sottana e con il fucile in spalla, ando a combattere in un reparto partigiano in Colombia, dove mori. Al centro del libro, il tema del sacrificio e la lotta dell''essere umano per la dignita, la figura del ribelle dotato di una ferma convinzione etica. Uscito per la prima volta in Polonia nel 1975 Cristo con il fucile in spalla fu immediatamente acclamato come il libro dell''anno e continuamente ripubblicato. Mai apparso in Italia, fa conoscere gli inediti punti di vista di Kapuscinski, soprattutto noto per i suoi reportage africani, su altre parti del mondo, altre genti, altre tragedie. Sono reportage dal Medio Oriente, dall''Africa orientale e dall''America latina, di cui sono protagonisti palestinesi, siriani, libanesi, giordani, ebrei, i partigiani del Mozambico e del Salvador, l''ambasciatore della Repubblica federale tedesca in Guatemala Karl von Spreti e, infine, il presidente Salvador Allende e il rivoluzionario Che Guevara, di cui nel 1969 Kapuscinski, aveva tradotto in polacco e pubblicato il Diario dalla Bolivia. Cristo con il fucile in spalla e un''opera chiave del maestro polacco del reportage perche e uno sguardo inedito, e ancora di grande attualita, sul Medio Oriente e l''America latina. "

Imperium is the story of an empire, that constellation of states submerged under a single identity for most of the twentieth century: the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.This is Kapuscinski''s vivid, compelling and personal report on the life and death of the Soviet superpower, from the entrance of Soviet troops into his hometown in Poland in 1939, through his journey across desolate Siberia and the republics of Central Asia in the 1950s and ''60s, to his wanderings over the vast Soviet lands - from Poland to the Pacific, the Arctic Circle to Afghanistan - in the years of the USSR''s decline and final disintegration in 1991.

El autor ofrece un fascinante relato de recuerdos y exploraciones de la Unión Soviética absolutamente imprescindible, un fascinante reportaje polifónico, uno de los grandes libros de la década.

Ébano no es un libro más sobre Çfrica: es un fresco inmenso desde Çfrica. Para escribirlo Kapu& x0015B;ci& x00144;skiáno visitó el continente: se mudó a el, y esa mudanza le cambió para siemp

Travels with Herodotus records how Kapuscinski set out on his first forays - to India, China and Africa - with the great Greek historian constantly in his pocket. He sees Louis Armstrong in Khartoum, visits Dar-es-Salaam, arrives in Algiers in time for a coup when nothing seems to happen (but he sees the Mediterranean for the first time). At every encounter with a new culture, Kapuscinski plunges in, curious and observant, thirsting to understand its history, its thought, its people.

Great Journeys allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries - but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things: Great civilisations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains, multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered.

Ryszard Kapuscinski was the greatest traveller-reporter of our time. Travels with Herodotus depicts his beginnings as an inexperienced young Polish journalist and reveals what drove him throughout his extraordinary life. At every encounter with a new culture - whether India, China or Africa - he plunges in, curious and observant, thirsting to understand its history and its people. Everywhere and always, he has with him his travelling companion, The Histories by Herodotus. Here in his final book the thoughts of Kapuscinski and Herodotus, though separated by twenty-five centuries, are intertwined to produce a unique work of reportage and insight.

Esta Poesía completa recoge por vez primera toda la obra poética conocida de Ryszard Kapuscinski y se convierte así en la edición más extensa en cualquier lengua –incluida la polacajamás publicada de

Un manual conversado sobre el oficio de periodista. «Es un error escribir sobre alguien con quien no se ha compartido al menos un tramo de la vida.» Es uno de los temas centrales de Los cínicos no si

'This is a very personal book, about being alone and lost'. In 1975 Kapuscinski's employers sent him to Angola to cover the civil war that had broken out after independence. For months he watched as Luanda and then the rest of the country collapsed into a civil war that was in the author's words 'sloppy, dogged and cruel'. In his account, Kapuscinski demonstrates an extraordinary capacity to describe and to explain the individual meaning of grand political abstractions

Quien muchos consideran el mejor reportero del siglo se sumerge en el continente africano, rehuyendo lugares comunes y estereotipos. Vive en las casas repletas de cucarachas de los más pobres, enferma de malaria cerebral, corre peligro de muerte a manos de un guerrillero&. pero pese a todo no pierde su mirada lucida y su voz de gran narrador para adentrar al lector en la compleja realidad de Africa, con las guerras, miseria e injusticia que atraviesan su historia y lastran su presente. Posiblemente la obra cumbre del autor, ganadora del Premio Viareggio, entre otros galardones.Quien muchos consideran el mejor reportero del siglo se sumerge en el continente africano, rehuyendo lugares comunes y estereotipos. Vive en las casas repletas de cucarachas de los más pobres, enferma de malaria cerebral, corre peligro de muerte a manos de un guerrillero&. pero pese a todo no pierde su mirada lucida y su voz de gran narrador para adentrar al lector en la compleja realidad de Africa, con las guerras, miseria e injusticia que atraviesan su historia y lastran su presente. Posiblemente la obra cumbre del autor, ganadora del Premio Viareggio, entre otros galardones.

Shah of Shahs depicts the final years of the Shah in Iran, and is a compelling meditation on the nature of revolution and the devastating results of fear. Here, Kapuscinski describes the tyrannical monarch, who, despite his cruel oppression of the Iranian people, sees himself as the father of a nation, who can turn a backward country into a great power - a vain hope that proves a complete failure. Yet, even as Iran becomes a behemoth of riches' and as the Shah lives like a European billionaire, its people live in a climate of fear, terrorized by the secret police. Told with intense power and feeling, Kapuscinski portrays the inevitable build-up to revolution - a cataclysmic upheaval that delivered Iran into the rule of the Ayatollah Khomeini.

Desde hace un par de décadas la producción literaria de Ryszard Kapus´cin´ski –en prosa, su poesía es un capítulo aparte– discurre por dos cauces independientes: paralelamente a obras monolíticas –co

Durant la dècada dels anys cinquanta, mentre recorre la Polònia més profunda, un Kapuscinski aprenent de reporter viu obsessionat amb la idea de creuar la frontera. Fracassa en la seva aspiració de v

En una página de este libro -en parte autobiográfico-, Kapusciriski recuerda que cuando era corresponsal de la PAP (Agencia de Prensa Polaca) en los países del Tercer Mundo, «la herramienta de transm

After the deposition of Haile Selassie in 1974, which ended the ancient rule of the Abyssinian monarchy, Ryszard Kapuscinski travelled to Ethiopia and sought out surviving courtiers to tell their stories. Here, their eloquent and ironic voices depict the lavish, corrupt world they had known - from the rituals, hierarchies and intrigues at court to the vagaries of a ruler who maintained absolute power over his impoverished people. They describe his inexorable downfall as the Ethiopian military approach, strange omens appear in the sky and courtiers vanish, until only the Emperor and his valet remain in the deserted palace, awaiting their fate. Dramatic and mesmerising, The Emperor is one of the great works of reportage and a haunting epitaph on the last moments of a dying regime.

'Only with the greatest of simplifications, for the sake of convenience, can we say Africa. In reality, except as a geographical term, Africa doesn't exist'. Ryszard Kapuscinski has been writing about the people of Africa throughout his career. In astudy that avoids the official routes, palaces and big politics, he sets out to create an account of post-colonial Africa seen at once as a whole and as a location that wholly defies generalised explanations. It is both a sustained meditation on themosaic of peoples and practises we call 'Africa', and an impassioned attempt to come to terms with humanity itself as it struggles to escape from foreign domination, from the intoxications of freedom, from war and from politics as theft.

Años cincuenta: mientras recorre la Polonia profunda, un Kapuściński aprendiz de reportero vive obsesionado con cruzar la frontera. No viaja a Checoslovaquia, pero, a cambio, la redacción del diario