Literatura non-fiction : czytanie Kapuścińskiego po Domosławskim

Abstract

The book is a collection of four articles in which the authors of the first artistic biography of Ryszard Kapuściński deal with the main accusations brought against the writer by Artur Domosławski in Kapuściński non‑fiction, a book widely discussed in 2010. They oppose the accusation of creating a myth, and his own legend, as well as confabulations and opportunism in an objective and justified way, showing a selected and tendentious usage of the author’s life knowledge, the lack of comprehension of a literary reportage, manipulation with texts and quotations, as well as numerous factual and technical mistakes made by Domosławski. The book provides all who care about an individual and unprejudiced communing with Kapuściński’s texts with arguments, and may be useful particularly when shaping an appropriate attitude towards them in a school or university.