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Ryszard Kapuscinski has always been a patadeperro. Wherever there is a mess, especially in African countries, there is with suitcase and book notes. Have you heard the buzz of bullets that the military more American. Assumes no walking as meditation or as a relationship with nature, in the manner of Henry D. Walking Thoreau, but a necessity for contact with people.
And is that the Polish journalist, who has made the book journalism in a genre that asks nothing of literary fiction, believes that reporters should travel alone because it is important to see the world to investigate and penetrate with our own eyes. "The presence of another person influences our perception of things. His gestures, his comments, change this clean relationship between the writer and the world around him. "
(The family trip is to the contrary: to share with the loved the surprise of the roads seas, mountains and the recesses of the cities, the pleasure of conversation.)
tells that once he and some comrades were doing a documentary on Africa with an English team who first set foot on the continent. Toured places and when they came to colleagues anywhere they put a call to London from their mobile phones. "They traveled with me for three months but were never emotionally and mentally Africa, all the time were in London."
And is that Kapuscinski (read Empire, a story on the breakup of the Soviet Union as a nation, or Ebony, a journey towards country heart African), a feature reporter is empathy, the ability to feel at once as a member of the family: "Sharing the pains, problems, sufferings, the joys of people who recognize him entry if really is between them or if there is more than one passenger who came, looked around and left. "
is not as journalism from a desktop. Without people, the journalist is lost. Your career depends on the support and the will of others. At one point, as changing a light, can decide their career, because in those few minutes a driver can take you to a wealth of combat or be denied. Both
humility as gratitude have so crucial. The arrogance and indifference can cause people to cut and did not heed. Hence, the trade-off for the arrogance of those who cover the corridors of power, has to be exercised with modesty. The villages are full of stories. Just knowing how to find.
What has fascinated Kapusckinski is that the twentieth century has been that of decolonization and the great migrations from the countryside to the cities. Never before had opened in the political arena so many countries, more than eighty. Not impressed by anything the contemporary transmission speed and create as García Márquez, the best news is not what came first but it grows best. I hit a wonderful century, feels: the passing of the generations that move the story like Sisyphus's stone upwards. If the telegraph, radio, telephone, television, film, did not end with the press, as feared, now either the Internet or e-mail replaced the live reporter at the scene of events. The print media continues to develop. "The media extend the method of existence of the word, the transmission of the word. Not just to each other, expand. "
not very fond of novels. Cree reality and vivid characters appearing in the theater of the world are much more interesting and their stories more unusual than those provided by the market of literature. What novel of recent years has been able to move much as a real story?
has known the tedium of the editorial and downtime waiting abroad while working on a news agency, which no matter the writer. But rejoice that they had to cover that slave labor to write books, activity round the sense of the personal life of a journalist, to continue feeling that their work gets out of hand like a fist of sand. His wandering by African communities, this reality so rich, so colorful, so different from Europe, gave much more information than could put in the cables of the agency. "Then I locked myself in my room to prepare notes which would become later in books, while my comrades were going to be drinking whiskey."
In the best sense of the word, as I said Antonio Machado, compassion has always been among the keys his typewriter, analyze, speculate, imagine, fantasize, to invent, because it is essential that a reporter has come between the people who, in most of the world, living in very harsh and terrible conditions. "And if we share we have no right, according to my morals and my philosophy, to write." If you spent the night at the Hilton or Sheraton, and not in their houses of adobe and pure ground floor, no could be aware of when writing about their lives.
"When night came, the people were gathered from seven to tell their stories, and that was the time more literary, more beautiful, fantastic day. It was all poetry. "
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