Izmael płynie dalej. Przypadek Ryszarda Kapuścińskiego

Agnieszka Kamińska

Abstract

The author of this article poses the question of the nature and causes of traveling Ryszard Kapuscinski, the nature of his interest in life of distant cultures and societies, seeks to situate these interests among others, and determine the membership of the wider phenomenon (for example, post-colonial discourse). The author attaches great importance to the Pinsk pedigree of the writer, and more specifically - the experience of uprooting, exile, poverty, war and exile, which prevented him longer to settle permanently in any other place. These experiences have made him a wanderer, eternal traveler, who, however, when it could only goes forward, to reach what is left behind.