In the Laboratory of the Reportage

Beata Nowacka

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The presented analysis of The Emperor by Ryszard Kapuściński contains a comparison of the first, printed in “Kultura” in 1978, version of the reportage with its final effect. A stylistic and linguistic analysis of the text takes into account the Saxon period (works of priest Baka) and its later evolution (Trans-Atlantyk by Witold Gombrowicz). In the conclusion, the author critically refers to the reductionist interpretation of The Emperor, which after the publication of Artur Domosławski’s Kapuściński non-fiction became the dominating model of reading by the general public.

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reportage, literature stylization, Saxon period, biography of Ryszard Kapuściński