Ryszard Kapuściński debuted as a poet in Dziś i jutro at the age of 17 and has been a journalist, writer, and publicist. In 1964 he was appointed to the Polish Press Agency and began traveling around the developing world and reporting on wars, coups and revolutions in Asia, the Americas, and Europe; he lived through twenty-seven revolutions and coups, was jailed forty times, and survived four death sentences. During some of this time he also worked for the Polish Secret Service, although little is known of his role.
From the master of literary reportage whose acclaimed books include Shah of Shahs, The Emperor, and The Shadow of the Sun, an intimate account of his first youthful forays beyond the Iron Curtain.
Just out of university in 1955, Kapuscinski told his editor that he’d like to go abroad. Dreaming no farther than Czechoslovakia, the young reporter found himself sent to India. Wide-eyed and captivated, he would discover in those days his life’s work—to understand and describe the world in its remotest reaches, in all its multiplicity. From the rituals of sunrise at Persepolis to the incongruity of Louis Armstrong performing before a stone-faced crowd in Khartoum, Kapuscinski gives us the non-Western world as he first saw it, through still-virginal Western eyes.
The companion on his travels: a volume of Herodotus, a gift from his first boss. Whether in China, Poland, Iran, or the Congo, it was the “father of history”—and, as Kapuscinski would realize, of globalism—who helped the young correspondent to make sense of events, to find the story where it did not obviously exist. It is this great forerunner’s spirit—both supremely worldly and innately Occidental—that would continue to whet Kapuscinski’s ravenous appetite for discovering the broader world and that has made him our own indispensable companion on any leg of that perpetual journey.</p>
發表於2024-09-09
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評分基本可以不必讀。地緣偏見不少。對地中海周邊地理明顯瞭解不多,人太懶,不愛讀書。對長城的看法無知可笑-錯的都那麼俗套。最精彩的段落都是鈔書Herodotus-那還不如去讀原書。
評分作為一個能激起閱讀曆史和伯羅奔尼撒戰爭史的興趣的誘餌是極好的
評分在穿越另一個國度的旅途中翻開上個世紀旅人的劄記,如同找到瞭短暫的靈魂夥伴,一個人在路上的幸福
評分希羅多德被譽為曆史之父,卡普欽斯基在書中稱其為良師,有意識地去學習《曆史》的報道技藝,說生活在公元前5世紀的希羅多德是“一個造詣極高、無與倫比的記者,他齣門遠行、留心觀察、與人聊天、聆聽彆人講述故事。之後,他會把自己的所見所聞認真記錄下來,換句話說,就是認真記在腦子裏”,“在不同的文化背景下長大,世界觀是由多種不同元素組成的,他們被邊緣化,與人有距離感、有差異,但同時又兼有多樣性”。
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