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Imperium
€15.95
The Polish journalist whose `The Soccer War’ and `The Emperor’ are counted as classics of contemporary reportage now bears witness in Imperium 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. `Imperium’ 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 gulag of Kolyma, from a miners’ strike in the arctic circle to a panic-stricken bus ride through the war-torn Caucasus. Out 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 empire—a work that translates history into the hopes and sufferings of the human beings condemned to live it.
Auteur: Kapuscinski, Ryszard Jaar: 1994 ISBN: 9780679747802 Pagina's: 331 Taal: English Uitgever: Vintage Uitgever stad: New York Verschijningsdatum: