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Häftad, Engelska, 2002
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'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.
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
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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. And he reads Herodotus so much that he often feels he is embarking on two journeys – the first his assignment as a reporter, the second following Herodotus’ expeditions.
Häftad, Engelska, 1992
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- Nyhet
Inbunden, Svenska, 2026
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Den moderna journalistikens mästare i ny, samlad utgåva
»Kejsaren överskrider reportagets form och blir till en maktens mardröm. En oförglömlig, brutalt komisk och i slutändan medkännande bok.« Salman Rushdie
»Uppslukande. Full av subtila sanningar och oväntade insikter.« New York Times Book Review om En dag till att leva
Tre regimers kollaps. 1974, kort efter att kejsare Haile Selassie blivit avsatt, reser Ryszard Kapuscinski till Etiopien för att genom samtal med kejsarens betjänter och undersåtar teckna bilden av en korrupt despot som i över fyrtio år styrt sitt land med järnhand. Året därpå anländer han till Angola för att rapportera om oroligheterna som brutit ut efter att landet blivit självständigt. Under månaderna som följer bevittnar han hur landet slungas in i det inbördeskrig som skulle komma att rasa i årtionden. Ytterligare några år senare befinner sig Kapuscinski i Iran, där shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavis tid vid makten just har nått sitt slut och revolutionen har banat väg för Ayatollah Khomeinis religiösa styre. Med sin oöverträffade förmåga att kombinera det journalistiska reportaget med litterär konstfärdighet intog Kapuscinski en unik position som författare. Han mottog otaliga internationella priser och har benämnts som »den moderna journalistikens mästare«. Härskares fall: Tre reportage från imperiernas slut samlar Kapuscinskis tre stora reportageböcker i en volym: En dag till att leva [1976], Kejsaren [1978] och Shahernas shah [1982].I översättning av Britt Arenander och med ett nyskrivet förord av författaren och historikern Peter Englund.
RYSZARD KAPUSCINSKI [1932–2007] var en polsk journalist, fotograf, författare och poet. Han arbetade för den statliga polska nyhetsbyrån PAP, och mellan 1956 och 1981 rapporterade han från 28 revolutioner och statskupper världen över.
»Ryszard Kapuscinski uppvisar en magisk vältalighet.« John Updike, The New Yorker
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
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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.
Häftad, Engelska, 2001
138 kr
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'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.
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
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The Penguin Modern Classics edition of Ryszard Kapuscinski's The Emperor is translated by William R. Brand and Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand, with an introduction by Neal Ascherton.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.Ryszard Kapuscinski (1932-2007) was born in Pinsk, now in Belarus. Kapuscinski was the pre-eminent writer among Polish reporters. His best-known book is a reportage-novel of the decline of Haile Selassie's anachronistic regime in Ethiopia - The Emperor, which has been translated into many languages. Shah of Shahs, about the last Shah of Iran, and Imperium, about the last days of the Soviet Union, have enjoyed similar success. If you enjoyed The Emperor, you might like Norman Mailer's The Fight, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.'Stunning ... a magical eloquence'John Updike, New Yorker'[The Emperor] transcends reportage, becoming a nightmare of power ... An unforgettable, fiercely comic, and finally compassionate book'Salman Rushdie'Kapuscinski trascends the limitations of journalism and writes with the narrative power of a Conrad or Kipling or Orwell'Blake Morrison
Häftad, Engelska, 2001
270 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 1992
261 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 1995
279 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2002
227 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2019
121 kr
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'A masterpiece ... a moving image of post-war Poland, and the first breathing of one of the essential voices of the twentieth century... the master of literary reportage' The Times Literary SupplementWhen the great traveller-reporter Ryszard Kapuscinski was a young journalist in the early 1960s, he was sent to write about the farthest reaches of his native Poland. The resulting essays brought together here reveal a place as strange as any of the distant lands he visited on foreign assignments: caught between ties to the past and dreams of escape, a country on the edge of modernity.'Kapuscinski trascends the limitations of journalism and writes with the narrative power of a Conrad or Kipling or Orwell' Blake Morrison
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
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Introduction by Neal AschersonIn our globalised but increasingly polarised age, Kapuscinski shows how the Other remains one of the most compelling ideas of our times.In this reflection on a lifetime of travel, the renown travel writer takes a fresh look at the Western idea of the Other: the non-European or non-American. Looking at this concept through the lens of his own encounters in Africa, Asia and Latin America, Kapuscinski traces how the West has understood the Other from classical times to colonialism, from the Age of Enlightenment to the postmodern global village.
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
179 kr
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Master of transformation Kathryn Hunter brings to life an extraordinary fable of corruption, avarice and the collapse of absolute power.A world premiere based on the astonishing book by legendary journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski about the decline and fall of Haile Selassie's regime in Ethiopia, from the team that brought you Kafka’s Monkey. Hunter creates a mesmerising cast of characters, all servants to a despotic ruler on the brink of downfall. In a kingdom obsessed with title and tradition, the lowly and the loyal have incredible stories to tell.
Häftad, Engelska, 2027
264 kr
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Introduction by Neal AschersonIn our globalised but increasingly polarised age, Kapuscinski shows how the Other remains one of the most compelling ideas of our times.In this reflection on a lifetime of travel, the renown travel writer takes a fresh look at the Western idea of the Other: the non-European or non-American. Looking at this concept through the lens of his own encounters in Africa, Asia and Latin America, Kapuscinski traces how the West has understood the Other from classical times to colonialism, from the Age of Enlightenment to the postmodern global village.
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
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Bringing together for the first time in English a selection of poems from his two previously published collections, Kapuscinski offers up a thoughtful, philosophical verse, often aphoristic in tone and structure, that is engaged politically, morally, and viscerally with the world around him. Translated from the Polish.
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Meine Reisen mit Herodot
Häftad, Tyska, 2013
279 kr
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Imperium
Inbunden, Tyska
250 kr
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Häftad, Spanska, 2019
489 kr
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Inbunden, Svenska, 2011
379 kr
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”Litteraturresan har under åren 2002 till 2011 gått till följande platser: Baranavitjy, Brest, Hrodna, Luninets, Minsk, Mikasjevitjy, Polatsk, Salihorsk och Pinsk. Producent har varit Maria Söderberg i nära samarbete med kulturföreningen Kalegium, Pinsk, och Svenska institutet. Dessutom har Statens kulturråd deltagit de senaste åren. Den svenska ambassaden i Minsk har haft stor betydelse för att olika arrangemang har kunnat genomföras. Dock hade inget alls kunnat ske om det inte funnits lokala arrangörer på plats som ibland tagit betydande administrativa och politiska risker. Många av de medverkande författarna från Belarus (Vitryssland) har inte tillstånd att framträda på offentliga scener. Men, de gör det ändå”. ”Minsk valdagen den 19 december 2010. Klockan fem på morgonen vaknar jag av ett tungt dån, välbekant från militärparader och krigsfilmer. Jag rusar fram till fönstret: ”Kan det vara pansarfordon?” Jag ser en lång rad militärlastbilar med täckta flak. Jag blir inte förvånad. Redan för några dagar sedan meddelades det på oppositionens sajter att militära enheter och krigsmateriel höll på att dras samman till huvudstaden. Inrikestrupperna stod stridsberedda. Landet gjorde sig inte redo för ett val, utan för ett krig. Jag minns mitt samtal med en fransk journalist, som kommit för att rapportera om valet. Hon sa: ”Det här är de första fria valen i Vitryssland.” Jag svarade: ”Det är bara dekorationer.” Nu tänker jag: ”Synd att hon inte ser det här. Och att hon inte hör hur befälet hetsar de unga soldaterna som sitter på lastbilsflaken: ’De som samlas på gator och torg är banditer och sabotörer som får betalt från väst...’” Början av krönika ”På förtvivlans torg” av Svetlana Aleksijevitj. Översättning Kajsa Öberg Lindsten.