https://kapuscinski.info/en/tags/ameryka-lacinska/Recent content in Ameryka-Lacinska on kapuscinski.infoHugoen-USSat, 30 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://kapuscinski.info/en/press/articles/the-illuminated-letters-of-a-polish-journalist/Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://kapuscinski.info/en/press/articles/the-illuminated-letters-of-a-polish-journalist/<p>Maybe there&rsquo;s something about those brutal winters on the high northern plains of Eastern Europe, stuck defenseless between Berlin and Moscow, the peasant huts and concrete apartments smelling of dank clothes, lost hope and boiled cabbage.</p> <p>Maybe there&rsquo;s something that, every so often, kicks a young writer in the gut, and produces great wanderlust or literary genius or, in the case of Polish writer Ryszard Kapuscinski and his literary predecessor Joseph Conrad, both.</p>