https://kapuscinski.info/en/tags/krytyka/Recent content in Krytyka on kapuscinski.infoHugoen-USSun, 28 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000https://kapuscinski.info/en/press/articles/at-play-in-the-bush-of-ghosts/Sun, 28 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000https://kapuscinski.info/en/press/articles/at-play-in-the-bush-of-ghosts/<p>Author: John Ryle source: Times Literary Supplement archive source: info-poland.buffalo.edu</p> <hr> <p>At play in the bush of ghosts Tropical baroque, African reality and the work of Ryszard Kapuscinski</p> <p>by JOHN RYLE</p> <p>Ryszard Kapuscinski, The Shadow of the Sun, trans Klara Glowczewska 336pp, Penguin, 2001</p> <p>IN A CAREER EXTENDING over four decades, Ryszard Kapuściński has published accounts of his homeland, Poland, of travels in Iran and the former Soviet Union, and a collection of reportage from third-world countries including Honduras, El Salvador, Chile and Bolivia.  His principal subject, however, from early in his working life, has been Africa.  Africa is where, in the late 1950s, in his mid-twenties, after a brief spell in India and Pakistan, he began his career as a foreign correspondent, working for the official Polish state news agency.  In the 1960s, he covered the early years of independence and the first of the post-colonial civil wars that have ravaged the continent ever since.  In the 1970s he revisited these conflicts in a sequence of works of reflective reportage, works in which he transformed himself from a journalist into an author of international repute.</p>