"Why Did the World Flash Past Me So Fast" — a review of "Imperium"

Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Author: Ryszard Pietrzak. Source: Nowe Książki no. 6, 1993. Published: 1993-01-01

This is a line from a poem by Ryszard Kapuściński, contained in his Notebook. That poem speaks more penetratingly than any of his statements or interviews about the problems bound up with his reportage prose. It is short and worth quoting in full: “Why / did the world / flash past me / so fast / would not let itself be stopped / come closer / be addressed as thou / it rushed off / a vanishing point / in fire and smoke.”

Press reviews of "Imperium" — a bibliography

Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000

• 1991 Rzeczpospolita no. 54 — Peregrinations. Review by K.M.

• 1993 Debata no. 1, pp. 119–21 — Review by Jerzy Nowakowski.

• 1993 Puls no. 3, pp. 118–22 — Can One Understand the Twilight and Fall of the Empire? Review by Marek Karpiński.

• 1993 2B no. 5–6, pp. 58–59 — What Do We Have to Offer? Review by J. Kott.

• 1993 Nowe Książki no. 6 — “Why Did the World Flash Past Me So Fast.” Review by Ryszard Pietrzak.

Ryszard-Pietrzak on kapuscinski.info

"Why Did the World Flash Past Me So Fast" — a review of "Imperium"

Press reviews of "Imperium" — a bibliography