"You Cannot Know Everything" — Review of "A Portrait of the Reporter"

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Author: Jerzy Rohoziński. Source: Nowe Książki, No. 1/2004. Date of publication: 2004.

Kapuściński can be liked or disliked. Those who value in a reporter the ability to discreetly “hide behind” the described matter, the art of allowing the reader an intimate encounter with the described world — those who, in a word, are bothered in Kapuściński’s reportages by the fact that there is too much Kapuściński himself in them — will, among the classics of Polish reportage, prefer the less self-absorbed Budrewicz. Those, however, who like the reporter to be the principal hero of his account, a guide, a moral authority, and an oracle, will worship precisely Kapuściński.

Jerzy-Rohozinski on kapuscinski.info

"You Cannot Know Everything" — Review of "A Portrait of the Reporter"