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>
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.
读到这本书之前,我对波兰记者、作者、诗人雷·卡普钦斯基一无所知,也难怪,这本《与希罗多德一起旅行》是国内第一次出版他的书。看书中的介绍后又在网上查资料,才知道2007年辞世的卡普钦斯基是波兰新闻界及文坛的重量级人物,早已享誉世界。他曾是波兰通讯社的唯一名驻外记...
评分卡普辛斯基的《与希罗多德一起旅行》是一份恰当的遗嘱。 许多中欧作家一直醉心于人类记忆这个主题,例如已过世的波兰诺贝尔奖得主切斯瓦夫·米沃什(Czeslaw Milosz)的诗歌,捷克流亡作家米兰·昆德拉(Milan Kundera )的散文,还有其他数不清的作家等等。正如昆德拉所说“...
评分其实严格说不能叫做一篇书评,太忙了,纯粹就是笔记吧,把觉得不错的东西码在这自己没事儿随便看看就好。 希罗多德写居鲁士和克洛伊索斯,“人间的万事万物都是在车轮上转动的,转动的车轮绝不会让一个人永远幸福。”波斯和玛撒该塔伊人战争里头,居鲁士本可以放托米丽思一...
评分读到这本书之前,我对波兰记者、作者、诗人雷·卡普钦斯基一无所知,也难怪,这本《与希罗多德一起旅行》是国内第一次出版他的书。看书中的介绍后又在网上查资料,才知道2007年辞世的卡普钦斯基是波兰新闻界及文坛的重量级人物,早已享誉世界。他曾是波兰通讯社的唯一名驻外记...
评分其实严格说不能叫做一篇书评,太忙了,纯粹就是笔记吧,把觉得不错的东西码在这自己没事儿随便看看就好。 希罗多德写居鲁士和克洛伊索斯,“人间的万事万物都是在车轮上转动的,转动的车轮绝不会让一个人永远幸福。”波斯和玛撒该塔伊人战争里头,居鲁士本可以放托米丽思一...
在穿越另一个国度的旅途中翻开上个世纪旅人的札记,如同找到了短暂的灵魂伙伴,一个人在路上的幸福
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评分基本可以不必读。地缘偏见不少。对地中海周边地理明显了解不多,人太懒,不爱读书。对长城的看法无知可笑-错的都那么俗套。最精彩的段落都是钞书Herodotus-那还不如去读原书。
评分作为一个能激起阅读历史和伯罗奔尼撒战争史的兴趣的诱饵是极好的
评分作为一个能激起阅读历史和伯罗奔尼撒战争史的兴趣的诱饵是极好的