- Editorial:
- VINTAGE
- Año de edición:
- 1994
- Materia
- Literatura internacional
- ISBN:
- 978-0-679-74780-2
- Páginas:
- 331
- Encuadernación:
- Rústica
IMPERIUM
KAPUSCINSKI, RYSZARD
The Polish journalist whose u003ciu003eThe Soccer Waru003c/iu003e and u003ciu003eThe Emperoru003c/iu003e are counted as classics of contemporary reportage now bears witness in u003ciu003eImperiumu003c/iu003e to the disintegration of the Soviet Union. This magisterial book combines childhood memory with unblinking journalism, a radar for the truth with a keen appreciation of the absurd.u003cbru003eu003cbru003eu003ciu003eImperiumu003c/iu003e begins with Ryszard Kapuscinski's account of the Soviet occupation of his town in eastern Poland in 1939. It culminates fifty years later, with a forty-thousand-mile journey that takes him from the haunted corridors of the Kremlin to the abandoned u003ciu003egulagu003c/iu003e of Kolyma, from a miners' strike in the arctic circle to a panic-stricken bus ride through the war-torn Caucasus.u003cbru003eu003cbru003eOut of passivity and paranoia, ethnic hatred and religious fanaticism that have riven two generations of Eastern Europeans, Kapuscinski has composed a symphony for a collapsing empirea work that translates history into the hopes and sufferings of the human beings condemned to live it.